11:00 a.m. – Elizabeth May will participate in a press conference with Jane Sterk, Leader of the Green Party of BC and Adriane Carr, Vancouver’s first Green Party City Councilor, on International Women’s Day to outline their current priorities to support women’s equity and leadership.

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• Green Party of Canada’s release for International Women’s Day.
• The three Green leaders will be will be joined by Carrie Serwetnyk, the first woman inductee into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame and founder of Why the Women’s World Cup Matters.

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While Green party leaders called for all political parties in Canada to come out against the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project on Wednesday, a representative from the company took issue with their facts.

Federal Green Party MP Elizabeth May, BC Green Party leader Jane Sterk and Vancouver City Councillor and federal Green Party deputy leader Adriane Carr joined first nations leaders to state their opposition to the company’s plan to expand their capcity for transporting oil from Alberta to Metro Vancouver and beyond.

“We would end up with as many as 300 to 360 super tankers a year trying to get out from under the Second Narrows, under Railway Bridge and under Lions Gate Bridge,” May said.

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