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Budget 2021 can plug the holes in our COVID-19 response and lay the foundation for a better future
Media Release | Monday, 19 Apr 2021OTTAWA – Today’s budget will be presented in the context of a devastating third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The government of Canada and all of parliament must be focused on delivering the urgent...
Green Party Leader Annamie Paul repeats her plea for a national strategy to respond to surging COVID-19 pandemic
Media Release | Friday, 16 Apr 2021OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada has once again called on the Prime Minister to strike an intergovernmental rapid response task force, led by health experts, to coordinate all aspects of the...
Paul Manly to run again in Nanaimo-Ladysmith
Media Release | Friday, 16 Apr 2021OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Annamie Paul congratulates Paul Manly (MP, Nanaimo-Ladysmith), on being acclaimed as the party’s candidate in Nanaimo-Ladysmith, B.C. Mr. Manly won a historic victory...
Green MP Jenica Atwin tables her first private member’s bill to protect health and wellness of Canadians
Media Release | Thursday, 15 Apr 2021FREDERICTON – From her riding office, Jenica Atwin (MP, Fredericton) tabled her first private members bill to ban the use of the herbicide glyphosate in Canada. “Canadians have the right to breathe...
Green Party congratulates Leader Annamie Paul on Toronto Centre nomination
Media Release | Wednesday, 14 Apr 2021OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Annamie Paul has been acclaimed as the candidate for Toronto Centre. In last year’s by-election in the riding, Ms. Paul made historic gains, quadrupling the Greens’ 2019...
Green Party leader stresses climate action, pandemic collaboration, and the need for new pandemic benefits in conversation with Prime Minister
Media Release | Tuesday, 13 Apr 2021OTTAWA – During her meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau today, Green Party Leader Annamie Paul stressed the need for ambitious climate action, cross-partisan pandemic cooperation and new support...
Green Party Leader Annamie Paul calls on Prime Minister and federal government to renew Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB)
Media Release | Tuesday, 13 Apr 2021OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Annamie Paul today called today on the Federal Government to reinstate the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) beginning May 1. Last year’s CESB began on May 10 and...
Green Party urges the Prime Minister and federal party leaders to advocate for all essential workers to be prioritised for vaccines in the third wave
Media Release | Tuesday, 06 Apr 2021OTTAWA -- Green Party Leader Annamie Paul repeated her longstanding call that vaccines be made available to every adult living in a community with a high concentration of low-income essential workers...
Following the BAPE's damning report on LNG Quebec, Annamie Paul calls for the project to be abandoned
Media Release | Wednesday, 31 Mar 2021MONTREAL – Green Party leader Annamie Paul today called for the cancellation of GNL Quebec, a major project to build a gas pipeline from western Canada across Quebec to a new liquefied natural gas (...
Green Party of Canada Leader Annamie Paul calls for essential workers and adults living in racialized and marginalized communities to be vaccinated immediately
Media Release | Wednesday, 31 Mar 2021OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Annamie Paul is calling for adults in racialized and marginalized communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19 to be vaccinated immediately in response to the third...