December 12, 2020 OTTAWA – When 195 countries signed the Paris Agreement on December 12, 2015, it marked a turning point in the global community’s commitment to tackle climate change. By signing this landmark agreement, each country pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), with the goal of keeping the global average temperature increase ...
Week in Review: Dec 7 – Dec 11 (le français suit) On Monday, Elizabeth responded to a Ministerial statement on the 50th anniversary of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Elizabeth recounted how it took women from coast to coast to demand the commission, the first ever Royal Commission led by a woman, noting the key role by ...
Media Release December 11, 2020 BRUSSELS – December 12th will be celebrated by the United Nations and the COP26 co-hosts, the Governments of France and the UK, as the fifth birthday of the historic Paris Agreement. Yet there is little to celebrate. The world is still on track for three degrees of warming. 2020 has ...
We are nearing the end of this parliamentary session as the House will rise December 11 until late January 2021. This week, we have to get through the measures required by the Fall Economic Statement (confidence votes tomorrow), as well as Bill C-7 on Medical Assistance in Dying, slowed down by Conservative opposition. As well, ...
December 05, 2020 OTTAWA – Today, Green Party of Canada MPs have sent a letter to National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier calling on her to ensure that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) takes a compassionate approach to any repayments it is seeking from people who received the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) in error. In ...
Week in Review: Nov 30 – Dec 4 (le français suit) This week, Elizabeth responded to the Fall Economic Statement presented by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland. In her response, Elizabeth made many recommendations. She advised the government to reconsider their plan to invest in small modular nuclear reactors, calling them “a proposal, a marketing strategy, ...
Good Sunday Morning! And November draws to a close. Tomorrow will be Chrystia Freeland’s Financial Update, to which I will respond from Command Central – my home office in Sidney. I will speak, beamed into the House of Commons on a big screen as the last of the speakers from each Opposition party in reply ...
Today’s missive is intended to be something you can post on Facebook pages and share with friends by email. Please share and please take steps to demand better. On Thursday, the long-awaited Climate Accountability Act – full name “An Act respecting transparency and accountability in Canada’s efforts to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the ...
Blustery and cold here on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. We have been shivering for a while in unseasonable cold, while for early November, Toronto, Ottawa and much of eastern Canada have been experiencing unseasonable warmth. Across southern Ontario records were being smashed. It looks like more normal temperatures are returning in Ontario with snow ...
This morning’s newsletter is dedicated to the memory of my brother-in-law, Peter Anthony Kidder, who left this world yesterday morning. Much loved and much missed. (April 15, 1960- November 7,2020) Good Sunday Morning! Well, the agonizing wait ended yesterday morning with the news that Joe Biden is President-Elect. I am so relieved in so many ways, ...
Good Sunday Morning – January 10
January 10th, 2021
Good Sunday Morning – Jan 3
January 3rd, 2021
Good Sunday Morning – December 13
December 13th, 2020
Good Sunday Morning – December 6
December 6th, 2020
Good Sunday Morning – November 29
November 29th, 2020
Good Sunday Morning – November 22
November 22nd, 2020
Greens join in multi-party press conference to mark the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons coming into force
January 21st, 2021
Green MPs Elizabeth May and Jenica Atwin recognized in Maclean’s 12th annual Parliamentarians of the Year awards
January 13th, 2021
Green Party condemns steady erosion of civil liberties in Hong Kong
January 6th, 2021
Green Party Leader Annamie Paul calls on Prime Minister to Convene Emergency First Ministers Meeting on the Humanitarian Crisis in Long-Term Care
January 5th, 2021
Green Party urges government to move swiftly and implement all Calls to Action recommended in report from TRC
December 17th, 2020
On fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, Green Party says Canada still a long way from meeting its most basic obligations
December 12th, 2020
‘Twas just weeks before Christmas…
December 9th, 2020
Elizabeth asks Environment Minister to close Basel Convention loophole
December 9th, 2020
Elizabeth’s statement on the 50th anniversary of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
December 7th, 2020
Green Caucus letter to Mins. Bains and O’Regan re: Small Modular Reactors
November 9th, 2020
Green Caucus stands in solidarity with pro-democracy protests in Bulgaria
September 14th, 2020
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