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Statement on Remembrance Day
Media Release | Sunday, 11 Nov 2018OTTAWA — Green Party Leader Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands), released the following statement: Today, exactly 100 years since the signing of the armistice that ended World War I, the Green...
Lorraine Rekmans named Green Party candidate for the Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes by-election
Media Release | Friday, 02 Nov 2018OTTAWA – Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) is delighted to announce that Lorraine Rekmans is the Green Party of Canada candidate in the Leeds-Grenville-Thousand...
Deputy Leader of Green Party confirmed as federal candidate in Halifax
Media Release | Tuesday, 30 Oct 2018HALIFAX– Jo-Ann Roberts, veteran journalist and Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada, will be the party’s candidate in Halifax in the next federal election. Roberts won by acclamation during...
Liberals set up new debate commission with fair rules: Elizabeth May will be in the 2019 leaders’ debates
Media Release | Tuesday, 30 Oct 2018OTTAWA – Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) welcomed today’s announcement by the Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould of a new Commission to run leaders...
David Merner named Democratic Reform Critic for Green Party of Canada
Media Release | Tuesday, 30 Oct 2018ESQUIMALT – Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May has announced that David Merner, nominated Green candidate in Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke, will join the party’s shadow cabinet with responsibility...
Elizabeth May mourns with families affected by Tree of Life synagogue killings
Statement | Monday, 29 Oct 2018OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) sends her condolences to the families coping with the loss of their loved ones murdered at the Tree of Life synagogue in...
Elizabeth May sponsors whale and dolphin captivity bill
Media Release | Wednesday, 24 Oct 2018OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) will sponsor Bill S-203, the Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act, as it moves to the House of Commons today after...
Elizabeth May offers “tough love” to the Liberal’s carbon pricing plan
Media Release | Tuesday, 23 Oct 2018OTTAWA –Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) commended the carbon pricing plan outlined today by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment and Climate Change...
The Green Wave rolls over Vancouver: election brings fresh green look to councils, boards
Media Release | Monday, 22 Oct 2018OTTAWA -- Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May (MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands) today congratulated the 11 successful Green Party candidates in the B.C. municipal elections at the weekend, hailing...
Strange bedfellows: Canada’s power couple join forces to override privacy concerns
Media Release | Friday, 19 Oct 2018OTTAWA -- The Conservative and Liberal parties have joined forces to deny Canadians a fundamental human right -- the right to privacy -- by refusing to consider a legislative amendment that would...