Elizabeth MayIn 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit (The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development – UNCED), Canada signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).…
Good Sunday Morning! It has been a week of carnage for the poor people of Ukraine. Hospitals bombed, a theatre destroyed where hundreds of people had been sheltering…
Good Sunday Morning! My week was dominated by completing work with Shadow Cabinet and Parliamentary Caucus on the Green Party submission to the Emission Reduction Plan required by…
On June 22, 2021, French Member of European Parliament Marie Toussaint introduced an amendment encouraging the EU and the member states to promote the recognition of ecocide as…
Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2021-06-09 19:41 [p.8188] Madam Speaker, I am resuming a question I asked previously. The minister of fisheries answered the question, but it pertains to…
Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2021-03-10 18:07 [p.4851] Madam Speaker, I am going to try to present my opinion in French. I completely agree with my colleague from Jonquière,…
Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2021-03-10 17:19 [p.4844] Madam Speaker, the hon. member for South Okanagan—West Kootenay was absolutely right. The science demands that we have a milestone year…
Not outraged Good Sunday Morning! And ushering in March tomorrow – marking a full year of pandemic. My husband remarked the other morning as our dog Xo came…
Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2021-02-22 19:53 [p.4407] Madam Speaker, it is an honour to take the adjournment proceedings this evening to review a question and to hopefully get…
Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2020-12-03 19:22 [p.2955] Madam Speaker, in Adjournment Proceedings this evening, I am pursuing a question for which I did not receive an adequate answer…
Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2020-11-30 15:07 [p.2688] Mr. Speaker, on December 12, the United Nations will be marking the fifth anniversary of the successful conclusion of the Paris…
Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2020-11-26 13:24 [p.2511] Mr. Speaker, to my hon. friend from Calgary Centre, I think it is terribly important to disagree as forcefully as possible…
Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2020-11-25 15:57 [p.2424] Madam Speaker, with all due respect to the hon. minister, he cannot pick and choose what parts of Intergovernmental Panel on…
Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2020-11-20 12:06 [p.2191] Madam Speaker, the government has failed to meet the warnings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The climate accountability act…
Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2020-06-17 13:57 Thank you, Madam Chair. We know what the COVID-19 emergency response from government looks like. One year ago today, on June 17,…
Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) 2020-05-27 13:50 This question relates to another current emergency: the climate emergency. This week it was reported that the concentration of greenhouse gases reached…
April 17, 2020 OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada applauds today’s announcement by the Trudeau administration to invest $1.7 billion to clean up abandoned and inactive “orphan”…
April 17, 2020 OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada is concerned by an increase in Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for 2018, as outlined in the national…
At a time when the toll of climate change is becoming increasingly apparent in both human and economic costs, recent events have also revealed the role corruption plays…
Good Sunday Morning! Did you know that today – February 9th – is the deadline for the Canadian government to table its new climate target with the United…
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 indigenous…
Madam Speaker, I am honoured to rise today for the first time this year and at the start of a new decade. I would like to share my…
Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister. We are in, unquestionably, a situation of climate emergency globally. Canada participated at COP25 in Madrid, and we all…
Former Canadian Green Party leader and regular Policy contributor Elizabeth May will be filing all week from COP25 in Madrid. This is her first dispatch. Elizabeth May Dec.…