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About Rosa Galvez

Independent Senator Rosa Galvez chaired the Senate Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources in the 42nd Parliament and currently serves on the Senate Standing Committee on National Finance, which oversaw the federal economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In November 2020, she published a white paper on Building Forward Better: A Clean and Just Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic; proposing a transformative vision to achieve greater overall collective wellbeing and solidarity among all Canadians.

Originally from Peru, she is one of Canada’s leading experts on pollution control and its effect on human health. She has a PhD in environmental engineering from McGill University, and has been a professor at Université Laval à Québec since 1994, heading the civil and water engineering department from 2010 to 2016. She specializes in water and soil decontamination, waste management and residues, and environmental impact and risk assessment.

Throughout her career, she has been requested by private, governmental and community organizations to offer expert advice. She has also advised a number of international organizations, including on Canada-U.S. and Quebec-Vermont agreements regarding the protection of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. She also conducted an important study on the catastrophic oil spill at Lac-Mégantic.

Senator Galvez is a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, a Fellow of Engineers Canada and a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. Her research has led her around the world to countries such as France, Italy, Belgium, Japan and China.

She was appointed to the Senate on December 6, 2016, representing Québec (Bedford).

6 Articles

Multiple crises, one stone; give Canadians the break they deserve

To conserve credibility and trust, governments need a bold and immediate shift in spending that considers respect for the environment and the strengthening of our social fabric.
Opinion | November 12th 2021

COVID-19 has Canada in unchartered waters, but fiscal anchors aren't the only way to weather the storm

Far from being merely “expenditures,” the federal government's fiscal update presents investments in the recovery as a “down payment” for a greener and more inclusive future Canada, says Sen. Rosa Galvez.
Opinion | December 7th 2020

Canada also has an environmental racism problem

Pollution is also systemic violence against people of colour and closely relates to the police violence that has been at the forefront of the national debate.
Opinion | July 8th 2020

Réponse économique fédérale à COVID-19: sauvetage pétrolier ou citoyen?

Le gouvernement a maintenant plus de latitude pour augmenter les dettes et les transactions qui pourraient paver la voie à de potentiels sauvetages corporatifs.
Coronavirus in Canada
Opinion | April 1st 2020

COVID-19 recovery must bail out people not corporations.

Parliamentarians must ensure the billions in financial assistance are deployed under the condition that they stabilize the economy, generate employment and that progress is monitored rigorously and transparently.
Coronavirus in Canada
Opinion | March 31st 2020

We need visionary leaders ready to face the climate emergency

Political leaders must respond to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century credibly, not deny the complex world we now live in or only pay lip service to it.
Election 2019
Opinion, Politics | October 1st 2019

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