Elizabeth MayOTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada supports the Heiltsuk Nation’s efforts in Bella Bella, B.C., to defend local herring stocks that are at risk. “I stand in…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pursue a question I asked of the Minister of the Environment on January 26. It was my first opportunity to…
OTTAWA – On Friday, a three person arbitration panel, by a margin of 2-1, ruled against the Nova Scotia government in its clear decision to reject a controversial…
OTTAWA – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich – Gulf Islands, issued the following statement on World Water Day:…
Globally, nations are engaging, with varying degrees of enthusiasm and ambition, in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the deadline negotiations set for December…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I would like to speak to the bill on pipeline safety. In my view, it is a good first step toward ensuring pipeline safety,…
Last spring when the U.S. State Department Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Keystone XL was released, it was heralded by project boosters as the green light to…
Elizabeth May strongly opposed to bill that could exempt LNG plants from Species at Risk Act OTTAWA – Elizabeth May supports Andrew Weaver, MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head…
Dear Bitumen, I must be blunt – I don’t know what we ever saw in you. You seemed popular, as though all of the countries wanted to be…
Stephen Harper’s fiscal strategy is being undermined by an economic nightmare. This one isn’t coming out of the eurozone or the United States. No, this time it’s the…
The Governor of the Bank of Canada Steven Poloz has dropped our interest rates to help avoid the threat of deflation. In doing so he gave his judgment…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise today to share with you and all of my colleagues a brief report on the events in Lima,…
OTTAWA – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich – Gulf Islands, said current low oil prices should be a…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, last month, in Lima, at the climate negotiations, Canada signed on to a decision in which all nations are invited to submit their intended…
OTTAWA – As the other federal party leaders waver on their commitments to regulate carbon emissions, Elizabeth May remains the only leader to lay out an up-to-date and…
On Sunday, December 14 at 3:30 AM the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP20) in Lima, Peru limped across the finish line. The deadline for the acceptance of…
It’s crunch time. The science of the climate crisis is clear. We are running out of time to reduce global emissions. This year Canadian policymakers must accomplish two…
OTTAWA – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich – Gulf Islands, described yesterday’s Supreme Court decision not to hear…
OTTAWA – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich–Gulf Islands, today expressed her complete disappointment regarding the British Columbia Government’s decision…
Walking through the streets of Lima on Wednesday in that nation’s largest-ever march for climate action, I turned to a friend and said: “If you had told me…
OTTAWA – The 20th Conference of Parties (COP20) session to address the threat of climate change came to a close early Sunday morning in Lima, Peru. The two-weeks’…
(LIMA) – As you likely have heard, the COP20 talks wrapped earlier this morning at around 3:30 AM. The deal was done in seconds following the break for…
(LIMA) – Okay, I know that sounds like a Bruce Willis movie and my apologies… but this COP has achieved that dreamlike-nightmarish quality that obscures what day it…
The COP20 talks are taking place in an unlikely venue – a military base outside of town. Despite the reporting of its carbon footprint, being built from scratch…
With the challenges plaguing global treaties to stabilize greenhouses gases in the atmosphere, to avert levels of climate change that would exceed humanity’s ability to adapt, it has…