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Green Party calls for demographic adjustment in federal health transfer
Media Release | Friday, 14 Feb 2020FREDERICTON – Green Party MP Jenica Atwin (Fredericton) said today that proposed sweeping changes to the health care system in New Brunswick are indicative of the challenges facing New Brunswick’s...
Green Party caucus condemns injunction enforcement in Wet’suwet’en territory
Media Release | Thursday, 06 Feb 2020OTTAWA - Today’s enforcement action in Wet’suwet’en territory is another humiliating stain on Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples. At 5 a.m. this morning, the RCMP moved into Wet’suwet’en...
Green Party of Canada Caucus in Favour of the Opposition Motion
Media Release | Wednesday, 05 Feb 2020OTTAWA - The Green Party Caucus will be voting in favour of the Conservative opposition motion in the House of Commons today. Yesterday the Conservative Party presented the Opposition Motion that a)...
Premier McNeil Announces No Extension for Boat Harbour
Media Release | Wednesday, 05 Feb 2020December 21, 2019 HALIFAX – Christmas came early for Pictou Landing First Nation. Premier Stephen McNeil announced there will be no extension to the Boat Harbour Act. This means the effluent...
Greens excited about leadership contest
Media Release | Monday, 03 Feb 2020CHARLOTTETOWN – The contest to choose a new leader for the Green Party has started! It begins today at the Delta hotel in Charlottetown where it will finish eight months from now during the first...
Green Party welcomes recommendations for regulatory reform on streaming services in Canada
Media Release | Thursday, 30 Jan 2020OTTAWA – The Green party of Canada supports a call for an ad-free CBC and new content rules for international streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime. These were two of the top...
Greens to focus on the degree of corporate influence over government decision making
Media Release | Tuesday, 28 Jan 2020OTTAWA -- As Parliament gears up for a winter spring session, the three Green Members of Parliament will track and expose the degree to which regulators and policy makers are captured by major...
Green Party calls on Trudeau and Horgan to respect Wet’suwet’en rights
Media Release | Tuesday, 21 Jan 2020VICTORIA, B.C. — The Green Party of Canada is calling for the federal government to recall the RCMP detachment sent into Wet’suwet’en territory last year. Green MP Paul Manly (Nanaimo-Ladysmith)...
Green Party backs farmers in bid for carbon tax break on 2019 grain drying
Media Release | Monday, 20 Jan 2020OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada is supporting calls by prairie grain farmers to exempt 2019 grain drying operations from the carbon tax. Last year’s unusually wet fall harvest forced producers to...
MP Paul Manly will travel to Wet’suwet’en territory this weekend
Media Release | Saturday, 18 Jan 2020NANAIMO, B.C. – Green Party MP Paul Manly (Nanaimo-Ladysmith) will travel to Wet’suwet’en territory on Sunday morning to meet with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs protesting the Coastal GasLink...