Elizabeth MayRead the full transcript here. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2022-05-30 23:51 Mr. Chair, just by way of opening, I will say that I am basing a lot of…
Click here to read Elizabeth May’s consultation submission to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard regarding a Canadian Aquaculture Act.
Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2020-11-24 22:40 [p.2401] Mr. Chair, I thank my hon. colleague for splitting his time with me. I also want to make note and thank…
Click the link to read Elizabeth’s letter to the Prime Minister regarding the crisis state of Pacific salmon: Trudeau, Justin (Urgent – Pacific Salmon in crisis)
Good Sunday Morning! Keeping track of our life in COVID, this week we enter our seventh month of pandemic. My first sharing of good news for the week…
Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2020-02-03 15:04 [p.831] Mr. Speaker, my question is for the hon. Prime Minister. The B.C. salmon season of 2019 was a complete disaster. It constituted an emergency situation for many…
OTTAWA – Mismanagement in the Port of Vancouver has turned the waters around the southern Gulf Islands into a free parking lot for the world’s largest freighter ships,…
FGR Section 56 NOI Comments c/o Aquaculture Management Directorate Fisheries and Oceans Canada 14W087-200 Kent Street Ottawa ON K1A 0E6 March 14, 2018 Re: Consultations on…
Elizabeth May is alarmed at reports that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is cutting key programs that help protect Pacific salmon runs. According to a leaked internal…
OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada condemns the approval of the Red Chris Mine. The controversial project threatens rare species and critical ecosystems. The Green Party at…
Acidification is the equally evil twin’ of the climate crisis. Today, June 5, is World Environment Day, and June 8 is World Oceans Day, with the full week…
This week the committee met twice in camera to conclude its study on closed containment salmon aquaculture and to begin a report on invasive species that pose a…
On Tuesday, October 16, the committee met to continue its study on invasive species that pose a threat to the Great Lakes System. A Liberal motion on the…
The February 6th meeting of the Fisheries and Oceans Committee featured one hour of witness interviews and one hour of in camera committee business. The witnesses present were…
The committee met twice this week to resume its study on closed containment salmon aquaculture. On Tuesday, December 6th, the committee held a videoconference with from representatives of…
As authorities in the United States and Canada are poised to approve genetically modified salmon, the Green Party of Canada urges Environment Canada to think twice. “We won’t…
A communications plan presented at the Cohen Commission shows that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is focused more on promoting fish farming than on its mandate…
The Green Party of Canada is calling on the Minister of Fisheries, Keith Ashfield to un-muzzle scientists in the wake of fisheries scientist Kristi Miller being prevented from…
Essentially, this bill aims to strengthen the Fisheries Act by requiring British Columbia fish farms to move from harmful open net pens to safe closed containment systems. The bill…
It is axiomatic that a new technology is introduced to the media and the public by those who have developed it. And, that they are the very people…
It seems a lot longer than a year ago that I wrote my first column in Island Tides, ‘From cod to salmon: when do we ever learn?’ Last…
The mainstream news media loves the ‘man bites dog’ story. Anything counter-intuitive is more likely to be front page news. So too, does the media like ‘debunking’ environmental…
British Columbia may have no other animal as iconic as the wild salmon. Creature of deep forest streams, raging rivers and open ocean, the wild salmon feeds the…