Green Party Leader Elizabeth May
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May represents Saanich-Gulf Islands, B.C.
As we face the accelerating climate crisis, the imperative to move away from fossil fuels is urgent, but so too are nature-based climate solutions. It’s not ‘either-or.’ We need ‘both—and’ and, as quickly as possible.
Kowtowing to the billionaire class and transnational corporations has never built a strong nation or healthy communities. We know how to do this.
We must combine our newly energized national pride in reforming our economy to be more self-reliant and self-sufficient with massively increasing our climate ambition.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was clear: to keep a habitable planet, and to ensure the survival of human civilization, greenhouse gas emissions must peak and begin to decline rapidly ‘at the latest before 2025.’ The clock is ticking, but politicians are not leaders. We look at polls and rush to distract the citizenry with shiny trinkets.
The degree to which any fisheries minister is successful is in direct proportion to their ability to stare down officials and insist on conservation.
Without making the 2030 goal deeper and urgent, net-zero emissions by 2050 is dangerous.
It’s great to know Canada will help those families dealing with the additional costs of managing diabetes, and that the cost burdens of preventative reproductive health care will be reduced, but the lost opportunity of really delivering pharmacare is tragic.
Four years after Nova Scotia’s mass shooting spree in 2020, the most devastating of the Mass Casualty Commission’s reports continues to gather dust.
We cannot re-negotiate the Paris Agreement, but we can move in the WTO to ensure all climate actions are protected to allow the use of trade sanctions, where appropriate, to insulate against decisions that penalize climate action as in restraint of trade, and to ensure the Paris Agreement will succeed where previous pacts have failed.
Measures for greater transparency and development of a new taxonomy for climate finance made up a small and unambitious section of the Fall Economic Statement.
Fighting for the climate and affordability are not competing goals. The Liberals must not allow Conservative sloganeering to drive their policies.
We think there is a way forward to mitigate our apparent dependency on the social media giants that are doing so much to damage our information ecology.
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.
Decision-makers must find ways to analyze and anticipate simultaneous crises. All require attention, and all require that attention at once.
Climate change is not a distant future threat. It is now, and so are the technologies to fight it.
