Elizabeth May: Petitions – Mining Industry

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, we hear a lot about youth not being interested in public affairs, current events, and civic responsibility, but I received petitions that I am presenting today from some young people in a high school in Winnipeg, the Seven Oaks School Division Met School, Garden City Collegiate Met School Justice League. They ...

Petitions – Human Rights

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, the second set of petitions is from residents of the Toronto area relating to the tragedy of human rights abuses in the People’s Republic of China. The petitioners call for the Parliament of Canada to stand up for the rights of people who are practitioners of Falun Gong or Falun Dafa. ...

Petitions – 41st General Election

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to present two petitions. The first is from residents of the Ottawa and Perth areas, who are calling on the government to bring about a full public inquiry into the misleading phone calls that were made during the last federal election. This petition deals with both the ...

Petitions – The Environment

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, the second petition is from residents of Ottawa, Wallaceburg, Kingston and other locations in Ontario. I have two petitions to the same effect. Petitioners are calling on the Government of Canada to cease and desist from promoting the Enbridge project and accept the wisdom of British Columbians that the project should ...

Petitions – Foreign Investment

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to present two petitions. The first is signed by literally hundreds and hundreds of people from Sidney, in my riding, Victoria, Vancouver, Prince George and many locations throughout British Columbia. The petitioners call on the Government of Canada to refuse to ratify the Canada-China investment treaty, based ...

Petitions – National Parks

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise today to present a petition from approximately 650 petitioners from the Toronto area, but including from a region extending to Burlington, St. Catharines and Oakville. They are petitioning the House to pay attention to the implementation of the vision of a Rouge Valley national park ...

Petitions – Lyme Disease

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, the second petition is on the subject of the private member’s bill I put forward, Bill C-442, calling for a national Lyme disease strategy. These petitioners from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and Brampton, Ontario, join with many thousands of others across Canada hoping the House can be united in seeking help for those ...

Petitions – The Environment

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today with a happier spring in my step with a petition from residents of Sooke, Duncan and Salt Spring Island calling on the government to take a different look at the Enbridge northern gateway pipeline. It certainly is encouraging that the Government of British Columbia has ...

Petitions – The Environment

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, the second petition comes from residents of Toronto who are concerned about the attitude of this administration in promoting a project, that being the Enbridge northern gateway project. The petitioners are asking the government to step back and that the Minister of Natural Resources await the evidence. Print this page...

Petitions – Foreign Investment

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, the second petition is primarily from residents of my own riding, from Salt Springs Island, from Mayne Island, from the Saanich Peninsula and from Victoria, calling on the government to refuse to ratify the Canada-China investment treaty as it threatens the sovereignty of Canada and the passage of laws municipally, provincially ...