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By his actions if not his words, Prime Minister Mark Carney has made it abundantly clear that reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and living up to our international commitments is not his priority, writes Green Leader Elizabeth May. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GREEN PARTY LEADER ELIZABETH MAY

December 10, 2025

An environmental activist since Grade 10, I have lived through numerous waves of urgent environmental threats. My Grade 10 activism was spurred the April 1970 Life magazine cover—“Lake Erie is dead.” The cause was eutrophication, the result of over fertilizati...

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