Good Sunday Morning – March 29

A mixed week (March 29, 2020) Good Sunday Morning! And for one Sunday, I am trying to focus on things non-COVID19. (And apologies for this being longer than usual. I broke it up with headings, for speed reading!) Green Party news: A chance to participate in an activity consistent with public health rules: TODAY -the ...

Good Sunday Morning – March 15

Good Sunday Morning, And, if it isn’t the Ides of March… Not to be superstitious, but on Friday the 13th, Parliament adjourned.  We set the date of April 20 to return, but essentially pre-approved staying out longer if required – or coming back sooner if economic and other pressing matters require it. We are in ...

Elizabeth May sees good and bad news in latest CESD report

OTTAWA – The Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development’s report released today examines various departments: Finance, Border Security Services, Fisheries and Oceans, and Environment Canada covering aquatic invasive species, protecting fish from mining effluence and both tax and non-tax subsidies of fossil fuels. “There’s good news and bad news in the report,” said Green ...

(F) Une message pour le temps des Fêtes de la part de votre députée

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A Holiday Message from your Member of Parliament

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We need new climate targets before COP24

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IPCC report must be debated in Parliament. ‘Time is not on our side,’ says Elizabeth May.

OTTAWA – Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) is asking House of Commons Speaker Geoff Regan to convene an emergency parliamentary debate on the alarming findings in the recent Special Report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “We need to carefully weigh what the experts on the IPCC ...

Press Conference with Dr. Gordon McBean on Climate Change

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ISDS Intervention

Elizabeth May – Member for Parliament for Saanich—Gulf Islands: Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the minister of international trade on his new portfolio. There are a lot of issues with TPP, but the short question is about the investor-state provision. We are now opening ourselves up to completely groundless charges against Canada, which Canada inevitably loses. ...

Why we need a public inquiry into the Hassan Diab case

For the Ottawa Citizen Updated: June 13, 2018 A grave injustice was visited upon Hassan Diab, a Lebanese-born sociology professor from Ottawa. It stemmed in part from his own government’s laws and actions. As a Canadian lawmaker, I am compelled to speak out and demand that we find out why he was subjected to such ...