Week in Review: May 6 – 10

Week in Review: May 6 – 10 Welcome back to Elizabeth May’s parliamentary Week in Review! This weekly e-newsletter recaps her work in Parliament when the House is in session. Using the links below, you can watch videos of Elizabeth’s interventions in the House, keep up with her media releases, and read articles she has ...

Elizabeth supports Indigenous Languages Act, calls for improved amendments in the future

  Mr. Speaker, I appreciated the as-ever thoughtful approach of my friend from Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan on this issue. We may disagree around some of the aspects of his speech, but he is clearly very thoughtful about issues of reconciliation. However, when the member’s leader was before the Assembly of First Nations and was asked what the ...

Elizabeth May’s constituents petition against government purchase of Trans Mountain pipeline

Elizabeth presents a petition on behalf of her constituents, who are calling on the government to halt the purchase of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Print this page...

Elizabeth May’s Week in Review: April 29 – May 3

Week in Review: April 29 – May 3 Welcome back to Elizabeth May’s parliamentary Week in Review! This weekly e-newsletter recaps her work in Parliament when the House is in session. Using the links below, you can watch videos of Elizabeth’s interventions in the House, keep up with her media releases, and read articles she ...

It is deeply offensive to have refugee rights limited within an omnibus budget bill

Ms. Elizabeth May – Member for Saanich—Gulf Islands Mr. Speaker, I certainly do not pretend that I have any right to give lessons to our Minister of Finance, but I want to remind him that this is a discussion about time allocation, not about the substance. This is a question of taking a bill that ...

Will Canada stand firm on its equivalency agreement for vehicle emissions standards with California?

Ms. Elizabeth May – Member for Saanich—Gulf Islands Mr. Speaker, I do not need to tell members of the House that our country is in the midst of a climate emergency. We see flooding throughout Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick, killer wind storms in British Columbia in the winter and forest fires in the summer. ...

Statement on the Easter Sunday Attacks in Sri Lanka

Ms. Elizabeth May – Member for Saanich—Gulf Islands Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleagues. It is with great sadness that I rise today to add my voice to those of my colleagues who have expressed their deepest condolences to the Sri Lankan people. I appreciate the words of our minister of global affairs, the leader ...

It is possible for us in this place to be more like Prince Edward Islanders

Ms. Elizabeth May – Member for Saanich—Gulf Islands Mr. Speaker, I am honoured and very pleased to rise today. When I booked this member’s statement, it is a reflection on how much can change in two weeks. I booked it with the sole purpose of saying to all my friends in this place that I ...

How do we root out what is essentially systemic levels of corruption?

Ms. Elizabeth May – Member for Saanich—Gulf Islands Mr. Speaker, to my hon. colleague from Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, I am again going to point out that the differences are not so much differences but continuing evidence that companies like SNC-Lavalin, or the large corporate influencers in Canada, get through doors that other Canadians ...

Corporate influence is why a government brings in carbon taxes then buys a pipeline

Ms. Elizabeth May – Member for Saanich—Gulf Islands Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague, the parliamentary secretary for environment and climate change, knows how deeply I lament the weakness of the government’s plan, just as much or more than I lament the fact that the Conservatives have no plan. The Liberal plan will take us nowhere ...