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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 celebrates Lunar New Year
Statement | Tuesday, 01 Feb 2022OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada extends warm wishes for a healthy and prosperous new year to all who are celebrating today to mark the beginning of the Year of the Water Tiger. “The new year is a...
Green Party statement on the “Freedom Convoy”
Statement | Monday, 31 Jan 2022OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada condemns the hatred, racism, misogyny, homophobia and utter disrespect for treasured Canadian institutions displayed by some of the participants in the so-called “...
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...
Statement on the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec Mosque Attack and of Action Against Islamophobia
Statement | Saturday, 29 Jan 2022OTTAWA – Five years ago today, in an act of unspeakable violence, a gunman opened fire in a Quebec City mosque, killing six men and wounding 19 others in the sanctuary where they had gathered to pray...
Statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Statement | Thursday, 27 Jan 2022OTTAWA – Today, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, people in Canada and around the world pause to remember the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust and to reaffirm...
Statement on preliminary findings of investigation at Williams Lake residential school
Statement | Wednesday, 26 Jan 2022SKEENA-BULKLEY VALLEY – The announcement of the preliminary findings from the first phase of the St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School investigation in B.C. is heartbreaking, said Green Party of...
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...
A painful reminder that we must act now – Amita Kuttner’s message on the anniversary of their mother’s passing
Statement | Wednesday, 19 Jan 2022VANCOUVER – Today marks 17 years since I lost my mother and my home to a mudslide. It is unacceptable for the government to allow any of its citizens to suffer what my family and I have had to endure...
Season's greetings from the Green Party
Statement | Friday, 24 Dec 2021OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada extends warm wishes to everyone celebrating Christmas, or however you honour the light at the darkest time of the year. “On this second COVID Christmas, I hope that...