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Elizabeth May

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Elizabeth May, Ottawa, Green Party

Elizabeth May: Would Canadian politicians have fallen over themselves to save the horse and buggy?

No one would minimize the deep distress of workers losing their jobs in Oshawa, writes Elizabeth May. But the idea that the jobs must be saved because we must keep making the internal combustion engine is as tone deaf to global reality as deciding we have to buy a pipeline because oil prices are low. 
Opinion
By Elizabeth May in Opinion, Energy | November 27th 2018
Premier John Horgan, Alberta dispute, Victoria,

Elizabeth May explains how the sale of a construction company to China can hurt B.C.

The imminent sale of one of Canada’s largest construction companies to the Peoples’ Republic of China should give Premier John Horgan pause. In fact, it should lead him to a smart reversal of his support for the Site C dam, writes Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
Opinion
By Elizabeth May in Opinion, Energy | February 12th 2018

ELIZABETH MAY: Why environmental law matters

In 1976, I participated in my first environmental assessment. It was a review of a proposed hydroelectric dam carved out of land that had been in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. What I didn’t know when I showed up in the high school gym in Baddeck, Nova Scotia for the hearings was that the Wreck Cove Hydro Project was the subject of the first federal review ever in Canada.
Opinion
By Elizabeth May in Opinion, Energy, Politics | November 10th 2017

ELIZABETH MAY: Quash Kinder Morgan!

One intervenor, UNIFOR, the largest union representing oilsands workers, was denied the right to present evidence that the pipeline would result in lost Canadian jobs.
Opinion
By Elizabeth May in Opinion, Energy, Politics | October 2nd 2017
Elizabeth May, Green Party, electoral reform, Parliament Hill

How Justin Trudeau fed the wrong wolf

"Our society is now in the throes of a desperate battle. The life of democracies around the world is being torn asunder as if by two wolves," writes Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
Opinion
By Elizabeth May in Opinion, Politics | February 2nd 2017
Elizabeth May, Claire Martin, COP21, Paris Agreement

Paris threw us a lifeline. Don’t let it slip between our fingers.

COP21
By Elizabeth May in News, COP21 | December 14th 2015

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