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Greens agree with all-party consensus to suspend the House of Commons due to COVID-19
Media Release | Friday, 13 Mar 2020OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada agrees with today’s unanimous decision by parliamentarians to suspend the House of Commons until April 20 in an effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. “I want...
Greens call on politicians to respect civil disobedience
Media Release | Thursday, 12 Mar 2020OTTAWA – Green MP’s held a press conference today to denounce the growing trend to demonize Canadians taking part in non-violent civil disobedience for climate action. On the floor of the House of...
Green Party Statement for International Women’s Day
Statement | Sunday, 08 Mar 2020OTTAWA – The theme of the 2020 International Women’s Day is Each for Equal – an equal world is an enabled world. While progress has been made on gender equality in Canada, there is still much work to...
Greens call on Public Health Agency to implement more robust protections for front-line health-care workers
Media Release | Thursday, 05 Mar 2020OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada is urging the federal government and the Public Health Agency of Canada to implement more robust protections for front-line health-care workers dealing with the...
Green Party welcomes progress between the Wet’suwet’en and the federal and provincial governments
Media Release | Monday, 02 Mar 2020OTTAWA – The Green Party welcomed news that considerable progress has been achieved during talks between the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and B....
Teck has seen the writing on the wall; the real emergency is the climate emergency, says Green Party
Media Release | Tuesday, 25 Feb 2020OTTAWA – Teck Resources’ abrupt withdrawal from the massive Frontier oil sands project has ignited an emergency debate in the House of Commons today. The Green Party of Canada is pleased but not...
Greens ask government to invest in people and the planet
Media Release | Thursday, 20 Feb 2020OTTAWA – Unprecedented times call for extraordinary budget measures, members of the federal Green Party caucus said today. Parliamentary leader Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) and Green MPs...
Green Party calls for demographic adjustment in federal health transfer
Media Release | Friday, 14 Feb 2020FREDERICTON – Green Party MP Jenica Atwin (Fredericton) said today that proposed sweeping changes to the health care system in New Brunswick are indicative of the challenges facing New Brunswick’s...
Canada's Global Role in the Climate Emergency - a Talk with Elizabeth May
Media Advisory | Monday, 10 Feb 2020BRACKENDALE, B.C. -– Green Party Parliamentary Leader Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) will speak at the Brackendale Art Gallery in Squamish tonight as part of the "Nature World Lecture...
Green Party caucus condemns injunction enforcement in Wet’suwet’en territory
Media Release | Thursday, 06 Feb 2020OTTAWA - Today’s enforcement action in Wet’suwet’en territory is another humiliating stain on Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples. At 5 a.m. this morning, the RCMP moved into Wet’suwet’en...