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Greens announce candidate for Lac-Saint-Jean byelection
Media Release | Thursday, 28 Sep 2017Montreal — The Green Party of Canada announces Yves Laporte as its candidate in the riding of Lac-Saint-Jean for the Oct. 23 byelection. Yves is a pianist and resides in Chicoutimi. He completed a...
Focus on large corporate tax rate, not small business
Media Release | Tuesday, 26 Sep 2017(OTTAWA) – The Green Party of Canada released the following statement: “Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s tax reforms aimed at Canadian small businesses cast too wide a net. Instead of rushed tax...
Canada’s refusal to sign U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons threatens security council seat
Media Release | Wednesday, 20 Sep 2017(OTTAWA) – ”Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s refusal to sign on to the Treaty on the Prohibition of NuclearWeapons is threatening Canada’s chances at securing a seat once again on the Security...
Statement on ongoing violence, displacement against Muslim minority Rohingyas in Myanmar
Media Release | Wednesday, 13 Sep 2017(OTTAWA) – The Green Party of Canada released the following statement: “International human rights groups are reporting that an estimated 370,000 Rohingyas, a stateless, mostly Muslim minority in the...
Prominent environmentalists, First Nations call on Trudeau to keep promise on restoring environmental protections
Media Release | Tuesday, 05 Sep 2017(VANCOUVER) – Today in Vancouver, Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) joined David Suzuki and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President of the Union of BC Indian...
Statement on BC government’s Kinder Morgan challenge
Media Release | Thursday, 10 Aug 2017(OTTAWA) – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, released the following statement regarding today’s announcement by the BC government to retain Justice Thomas Berger as outside counsel...
Liberals quietly backtrack on promised reforms on environmental protection
Media Release | Wednesday, 09 Aug 2017(OTTAWA) – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands), released the following statement: “The Liberals are consulting people to death and then ignoring the evidence...
Statement for Hiroshima Nagasaki Day
Media Release | Sunday, 06 Aug 2017(OTTAWA) – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands), released the following statement: "The mushroom cloud rose over Hiroshima on this day 72 years ago, and over...
Unprecedented right whale deaths in Gulf of St. Lawrence requires government action
Media Release | Monday, 24 Jul 2017(OTTAWA) – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, released the following statement: “News today of the death of another North Atlantic right whale, a highly endangered species, and an...
NAFTA renegotiation an opportunity to remove perverse aspects
Media Release | Tuesday, 18 Jul 2017(OTTAWA) – Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands), is calling on Canada to strengthen environmental protections and ensure our public healthcare system, water...