Green Party highlights the need for compassion in the repayment of emergency relief benefits

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 ...

Green caucus votes against Conservative motion

October 21, 2020 TORONTO – “The Green Party of Canada will always choose people over politics”, said Green Party Leader Annamie Paul. “Today, that means that we are voting against the motion to create a special committee. We won’t let people in Canada down by indulging in partisan political games when they need us to ...

Green Party of Canada joins Nova Scotia Greens in condemning the escalating violence against Mi’kmaq fishermen

October 19, 2020 TORONTO – As the conflict in Nova Scotia continues to spiral, the Green Party of Canada and the Green Party of Nova Scotia issued a joint statement condemning the violence and calling on all leaders to join them in denouncing the criminal acts that have occurred, and urged the RCMP, and the ...

Green Party honours Orange Shirt Day

September 30, 2020 OTTAWA – Today, the Green Party of Canada commemorates the thousands of Indigenous children who were sent away to residential schools in Canada. Orange Shirt Day is the legacy of the St. Joseph Mission (SJM) Residential School (1891 – 1981) Commemoration Project and Phyllis Webstad, who was sent to the Mission for one ...

Greens encouraged by some aspects of Speech from the Throne but caution stronger climate action will be needed

September 24, 2020 OTTAWA  – The Green Party of Canada expressed cautious optimism about yesterday’s Speech from the Throne. Its continued support for Canadians struggling with the effects of the pandemic were encouraging. However, the science on the climate crisis makes it clear that we need more than vague promises to exceed the current weak ...

MP Atwin calls on federal government to respect Indigenous fishing rights

  September 22, 2020 FREDERICTON, N.B.  –  “I am deeply disappointed by the overt racism being practiced online and in real life by individuals and groups connected to St. Mary’s Bay in Nova Scotia,” said Jenica Atwin, Member of Parliament for Fredericton and Green Party critic for Crown-Indigenous relations affairs and East coast fisheries. “I ...

Canada must implement a Guaranteed Livable Income now, says Green MP Paul Manly

September 17, 2020 NANAIMO, B.C.  – The Green Party of Canada calls on the federal government to implement a Guaranteed Livable Income without delay, as a part of its recovery measures to assist Canadians for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tonight, Green caucus critic for families, children and social development, Paul Manly (MP, Nanaimo-Ladysmith), ...

Green Support for the Speech from the Throne tied to Flattening the Climate Curve and eliminating poverty

September 14, 2020 OTTAWA  – The Green Party of Canada (GPC) Caucus has made it clear that it will not support the government in a vote of confidence unless the Liberals commit to a major decrease in Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. The Green MPs are calling for a doubling of Canada’s climate target reaching a ...

Old growth ecosystems must be protected now, says Green MP Manly

NANAIMO – Green Party MP, Paul Manly is adding his voice to those calling for an end to road building and logging in the Fairy Creek watershed on Vancouver Island, BC. After visiting two blockades that have been set up to protest the logging of the last unlogged old-growth forest on Southern Vancouver Island, Manly ...

Green Party renews call for major changes to the Canada Elections Act

OTTAWA – The Green Party has renewed its call for federal privacy laws to apply to political parties, part of a comprehensive package of proposed reforms to the Canada Elections Act designed to protect personal privacy, eliminate voter suppression and address the growing problem of misleading election advertising. The proposed changes to the Canada Elections ...