Politicians should stop blame game on climate change and take real action, say environmentalists

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says the House should hold a Committee of the Whole to hear from scientists on climate change. But Ed Fast, the Conservatives' environment critic, says it would be too partisan to be productive.
Hundreds of students gather on Parliament Hill to demonstrate in support of climate action on May 3. Students worldwide have been staging school strikes every Friday to call out politicians for inaction on climate change.
Canada's federal politicians have been pointing fingers at one another for failing to offer a plan that prevents global temperatures from rising to uninhabitable conditions, while the window for averting catastrophic, destabilizing climate events is closing in, say env...

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