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Green Party introduces new law to protect passenger rail
Media Release | Tuesday, 08 Feb 2022OTTAWA – Greens in parliament are calling for legislation to give VIA Rail a proper mandate to deliver safe, reliable, low-carbon, affordable passenger transportation across Canada. In the House of...
Green Party tables legislation to address environmental racism
Media Release | Wednesday, 02 Feb 2022OTTAWA – In the House of Commons today, Green Party parliamentary leader Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) tabled new legislation calling for a national strategy to address the harm caused by...
Green Party calls for stronger diplomatic effort to resolve crisis in Ukraine
Media Release | Monday, 31 Jan 2022OTTAWA – Expressing alarm over escalating tensions in Ukraine, the Green Party of Canada is calling on the Canadian government to take a more active role in an expanded diplomatic effort towards a...
Green Party calls out government’s “net zero by 2050” chicanery
Media Release | Thursday, 20 Jan 2022OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada is calling on the federal government to explain why it appears to have abandoned its Paris Climate Agreement commitment to limit global average temperature increase...
Green Party calls on government to reinstate pandemic relief for businesses and individuals
Media Release | Tuesday, 21 Dec 2021OTTAWA – With people and businesses across Canada facing harsh new measures to slow the spread of the Omicron variant, the Green Party today called on the federal government to reinstate pandemic...
Green Party applauds unanimous House vote for comprehensive conversion therapy ban; urges Senators to follow suit
Media Release | Thursday, 02 Dec 2021OTTAWA – Green Party of Canada Interim Leader, Amita Kuttner, today applauded yesterday’s unanimous decision by the House of Commons to pass Bill C-4, the legislation to eliminate the practice of...
Green Party members condemn RCMP invasion of Wet’suwet’en land
Media Release | Tuesday, 30 Nov 2021OTTAWA – Green Party of Canada members, meeting at their virtual General Meeting at the weekend, voted overwhelmingly to stand in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples in condemning the RCMP invasion of...
Green Party appoints Amita Kuttner as Interim Leader
Media Release | Wednesday, 24 Nov 2021OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada is delighted to announce the appointment of Amita Kuttner as Interim Leader. Dr. Kuttner is an astrophysicist and founder of the Moonlight Institute, a non-profit...
Greens say Canada must step up and lead at Glasgow climate conference
Media Release | Thursday, 28 Oct 2021OTTAWA – As more than 120 world leaders get ready to meet in Glasgow for the 26th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26), Green Party parliamentary leader...
Statement on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Media Release | Thursday, 30 Sep 2021OTTAWA – “On this first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation we remember and honour the children who were lost,” said Green Party Leader Annamie Paul, “not only those whose remains are now being...