Elizabeth expresses disappointment, reaction to government’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

In reaction to the government’s announcement on June 19 that they will be approving the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Elizabeth expresses disappointment in the decision. Print this page...

Elizabeth commits to promoting an environmental bill of rights

Mr. Speaker, it is such an honour to put this question to my friend from Edmonton Strathcona, who has decided not to run again and who has done stalwart environmental work. I think I first started working with the hon. member for Edmonton Strathcona around 1984. We look younger than we really are. However, this is such essential ...

What is the government doing to help the Pikangikum First Nation?

Madam Speaker, we have been debating in this place a climate emergency. We know we are in a climate emergency. It is not in the abstract; it is real and happening in real time. In the community of Pikangikum First Nation in northern Ontario right now, 4,000 people are one to two kilometres from a ...

An Oilsands Bargain that Actually Makes Sense

In December 2015, the world agreed to the Paris Accord; to slash greenhouse gas emissions to hold global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C (over what it was before the Industrial Revolution), and, if we miss that target, to as far below 2 degrees as possible. The International Energy Agency (IEA) is not an ...

Elizabeth says Canada’s current climate targets are a path to extinction

Mr. Speaker, it is ironic that the motion on the climate emergency was moved back due to other government business. This is an emergency, and neither the NDP motion nor the Liberal motion before the House speaks to the detailed response necessary—in other words, to holding to 1.5°C. This is not a political goal but ...

Elizabeth and Paul unveil the Green Party’s “Mission: Possible” 20-point climate plan

Elizabeth May and Paul Manly unveil the Green Party’s “Mission: Possible” 20-point climate plan. Print this page...

Climate debate: Canada’s climate target is insufficient

Mr. Speaker, I apologize to my hon. colleague from Abbotsford for being out of the chamber for parts of his remarks, so he may have addressed this. What targets does the Conservative Party currently think are appropriate? If we look at the IPCC report on why we must hold global average temperature to more than ...

Climate debate: We are in a climate emergency, and that requires less partisanship

Mr. Speaker, I will vote for the NDP motion. We are in a climate emergency. I will also vote for the Liberal motion. We are in a climate emergency. That requires less partisanship. With all due respect to the hon. member for Burnaby South, I need clarification, because I did not hear him say in ...

We need to acknowledge that this is a national climate emergency

Madam Speaker, I am rising today to pursue a question that I asked initially in question period on March 18. That date was only three days after the quite extraordinary Friday climate strike at schools across Canada. Schoolchildren joined millions of other children around the world on March 15 for a global school strike for ...

Elizabeth supports Bill C-55 to amend the Oceans Act

Madam Speaker, I want to put on the record that I will vote for Bill C-55, the Oceans Act, as it comes back to this place. This is probably my only opportunity to say something I have been wanting to say for awhile, which is that we owe so much to the former minister of fisheries, ...