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    Canada’s innovation is lagging

    Blog | Monday, 25 Feb 2013
    Canada’s economy needs greater innovation. And our commitment to reduce greenhouse gases needs a burgeoning clean-tech sector. These goals, environment and economy, are mutually supportive. It has...

    The Death of Bill C-30

    Blog | Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013
    It is so rare, that the tendency is to rush on to the next thing.  I speak of our victories – so few and far between. The announcement that the so-called “Protecting children from Internet Predators...

    May Asks Prime Minister Why Airport Security Being Abandoned

    Media Release | Friday, 15 Feb 2013
    OTTAWA – Today, in Question Period, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, asked the Prime Minister to explain the rationale for discontinuing the RCMP and other police presence...

    Green Party Statement on the National Flag of Canada Day

    Media Release | Friday, 15 Feb 2013
    OTTAWA – Statement by Green Leader Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, on the National Flag of Canada Day, 15 February 2013:  “48 years ago today we witnessed the birth of...

    Is the U.S. finally going to move on the climate crisis?

    Blog | Thursday, 14 Feb 2013
    When a situation is as desperate as the climate crisis and yet, year after year, no leadership emerges, it is hard to believe that the situation may be changing. Like Charlie Brown running up to Lucy...

    Political Cooperation

    Blog | Monday, 11 Feb 2013
    Greens favour a cooperative strategy in the next federal election.  We need to move away from First Past the Post (FPTP), to a voting system that will ensure every vote counts and that the popular...