Canada is unprepared for the climate emergency and we need to work as one nation to fight it, not 13 separate and sovereign fiefdoms

As in the fights to arrest acid rain and protect the ozone layer, Canadians need to rally behind the political leaders with a clear vision and the courage to get there.

Firefighters at the site of a wildfire in Alberta earlier this year. We can no longer avoid our national failure to act to mitigate and respond to the future impacts of the climate emergency, writes Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. Photograph courtesy of New South Wales Rural Fire

Opinion

BY GREEN PARTY LEADER ELIZABETH MAY

July 31, 2023

SAANICH-GULF ISLANDS, B.C.—As the climate crisis accelerates, we are increasingly unprepared. The voices of the few who deny that burning fossil fuels has led to expensive and terrifying extreme weather events are dwarfed by the reality. Yet we are still increasing our dep...

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