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Greens condemn Minister Flaherty's uneconomic airport surprise
Media Release | Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013OTTAWA - On Tuesday, June 12, 2013, at an announcement to discuss the creation of the Rouge National Urban Park from which the public was banned, Federal Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty caught local...
Independent Report: Canadian Passenger Rail Coming Off Track
Media Release | Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013Independent MP Bruce Hyer and Green Party Leader and MP Elizabeth May are calling for immediate government action to reverse the decline of passenger rail across Canada in the wake of Hyer’s ...
May, Laraque Kick Off Canada’s Green Quebec Wing AGM
Media Release | Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, and Deputy Leader Georges Laraque will kick off the weekend-long 2013 AGM for the Quebec wing of the Green Party of Canada by speaking at...
Bill S-15 Would Allow Oil and Gas Activities inside Sable Island National Park Reserve
Media Release | Friday, 07 Jun 2013OTTAWA - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, today expressed her opposition to Bill S-15, designed to convert Sable Island into a national park. “Quite simply, this Bill will...
Greens Mark D-Day Sacrifices for Democracy
Media Release | Thursday, 06 Jun 2013OTTAWA - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, today marks the anniversary of D-Day, the allied landings in Normandy, France, designed to establish a bridgehead on the western...
Greens Support First Nation Challenge to Canada-China Treaty
Media Release | Tuesday, 04 Jun 2013OTTAWA - The Green Party continues to throw its full support behind the British-Columbia-based Hupacasath as the First Nation prepares to appear in federal court Wednesday to Friday. The Hupacasath...
Green Party Questions Harper Government Silence on Turkish Democracy Crisis
Media Release | Monday, 03 Jun 2013OTTAWA - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, today expressed her dismay at the deafening silence from the Harper Conservatives to the deteriorating political situation in...
May Recognized for Lifelong Environmental Work
Media Release | Friday, 31 May 2013OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada is proud to announce that Leader Elizabeth May, MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands, yesterday received a citation from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (...
Greens Mark UN Peacekeeping Day with Warning to Canadians
Media Release | Wednesday, 29 May 2013OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada today marks UN Peacekeeping Day by warning Canadians that their once-proud role in international peacekeeping has been systematically whittled away. According to...
Conservatives/Liberals Nix National Security Definition
Media Release | Tuesday, 28 May 2013OTTAWA - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, today expressed her frustration and concern after Conservative and Liberal Members of Parliament in the Finance Committee voted...