Green Party of Canada

OTTAWA--The world has been celebrating World Environment Day on June 5th since 1972 but never has the need for attention to the plight of the earth been greater.  We are now on the brink of major climatic changes and we are running out of time to make the needed changes to avoid catastrophe. ...

OTTAWA--Conservatives refuse to act on climate change yet again, with Environment Minister Jim Prentice announcing that Canada will have to wait for regulations to cut our greenhouse gas emissions until the United States takes action.  Breaking their promise that regulations would be ready by the...

OTTAWA--The Harper government is finally taking action to address the massive problems within Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) by selling off its nuclear reactor business and finding a private-sector manager for the faulty Chalk River facility, leaving many questioning where is the accountability to...

OTTAWA--Despite a longstanding ban, the city of Ottawa plans to host the country’s largest trade show of military armaments...

OTTAWA -- The Green Party of Canada expresses its shock and outrage with the re-arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese leader and Nobel Peace Laureate.  Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party urges the Government of Canada to use all diplomatic avenues – both bilateral and international – to...

OTTAWA – The Green Party is demanding the Conservative government release the results of six years worth of car seat safety tests conducted by Transport Canada...

OTTAWA--The nuclear emperor is naked, said the Green Party of Canada today. With a looming radioisotope shortage, the Conservative government still has no plan to move forward and medical institutions are already desperately worried.  "An inquiry is long overdue," said Green Leader Elizabeth May...

TORONTO--The Green Party of Canada fully supports the recommendations outlined in the final report of the Expert Panel on Securities Regulation. The Panel's key conclusion is that securities should be federally regulated...

OTTAWA--As we examine and reconsider our economic structures in the face of the current uncertainty, the Green Party urges Canadian policy makers to consider the value of our biological diversity as the basis of all of our systems.  Wild fish, natural forests and productive agricultural soils...

OTTAWA—With GM closing hundreds of dealerships across Canada this week, the Green Party hopes that Canada will fall in line with the recently announced US auto emission standards requiring 40 percent more fuel efficient vehicles by 2016.  This is a long overdue step in the right direction, and...

OTTAWA--The Green Party of Canada is calling on the federal government to avoid the purchase of bottled water wherever possible, both for economic and environmental reasons.  A recent report by the Polaris Institute and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Nova Scotia has exposed that the...

OTTAWA--Durham York residents are rallying together this week in opposition to a P3 (Public Private Partnership) incinerator proposal that would handle municipal waste from as far away as Toronto.  The proposed site for the incinerator, which has a projected lifespan of 25 years, is less than a...

CHARLOTTETOWN--The Green Party of Canada supports a group of Charlottetown residents fighting construction of a Rogers cell tower in their neighbourhood and is dismayed that both Industry Canada and Rogers would proceed after the City of Charlottetown voted to not allow construction.“Federal...

OTTAWA--The Green Party of Canada is calling on Minister of Natural Resources Lisa Raitt to admit the serious deficiencies of the Chalk River NRU reactor. "It's time for a full accounting of AECL [Atomic Energy of Canada Limited] incompetence," said Green Leader Elizabeth May...

OTTAWA—Native women are being left out in the cold with proposed legislation that has little protection for their matrimonial real property rights.  The Green Party of Canada supports the Native Women’s Association in their opposition to Bill C-8, an Act to deal with matrimonial property on...

OTTAWA--In another behind the scenes attack on science, the Conservative government has appointed well-known climate change deniers to key funding agency positions, setting the stage for shutting down much needed research in Canada...

OTTAWA—The Green Party of Canada commends the British Columbia Green Party for successfully running a full slate of candidates in the provincial election and for presenting a clear alternative to the policies of the old-line parties...

OTTAWA – Members of Parliament should apologize to Canada’s Olympic athletes for endorsing a motion last week to have Olympic uniforms for the 2010 Olympics include seal skin, say the Greens.  The motion, introduced by a Bloc MP following a European Union vote to ban trade in seal products,...

OTTAWA--Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, was pleased and proud to serve as official starter for the Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA) signature wheelchair race event on Parliament Hill with the support and participation of Members of Parliament.  May 7th marked the official...

OTTAWA--The Green Party of Canada is questioning the wisdom of opening a Canadian International Centre for the Arctic in Oslo, Norway.  The Centre, which is set to open this fall, was announced last Wednesday at the Sixth Arctic Council Foreign Ministerial Meeting in Norway by Canadian Foreign...

OTTAWA--The Green Party of Canada salutes Bill Casey for his many years of loyal service as Member of Parliament for Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley and wishes him well in his new role as advocate for Nova Scotia."Bill Casey is a true statesman," said Green Party Leader Elizabeth May...

OTTAWA--The Conservative government tried to dissuade California from climate action while telling the Canadian public it was going to follow the US lead. Letters posted by the Natural Resources Defence Council written by our Ambassador to the United States, the Hon...

By Kate Storey, Chair, Green Party of CanadaThis week, the world’s attention is on Mexico, where an estimated 1000people are infected with H1N1 swine flu virus and 150 people have alreadydied.  Canada has issued warnings against traveling to Mexico; however, wemay be creating the same conditions...

OTTAWA--Yesterday, Environment Minister Jim Prentice continued his campaign to mislead the Canadian public on climate change; this time from a Washington conference. Mr. Prentice said Canada will be setting tough regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from coal fired power plants...

OTTAWA--Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, speaking to the 16th Canadian Legislative Conference of the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) in Ottawa yesterday fully endorsed the association’s legislative agenda. “The federal government should be taking action to...

OTTAWA--Sunday, April 26, will mark the 23rd Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the worst nuclear power plant accident in history.  On that day in 1986, explosions destroyed Chernobyl’s Unit 4 reactor core and the result was a cloud of radioactive contamination, equivalent to 400 times that...

OTTAWA--The Green Party of Canada thanks and congratulates all volunteers across Canada during National Volunteer Week, April 19 to April 25...

OTTAWA—A Federal court ruling today in the case of Omar Khadr substantiates what the Green Party has been saying all along: “comply with a principle of fundamental justice” and repatriate Mr. Khadr...

OTTAWA--This Earth Day, the Green Party of Canada is celebrating reaching a goal of informing one hundred thousand Canadians about the recent attacks on the country's environmental laws.  After thirty-nine years of slow but consistent progress of Canada achieving more stringent environmental laws...

OTTAWA – A report issued by Statistics Canada on April 21 indicates that the government and opposition parties have been mis-focused in their “get tough on crime” agenda.  According to the new police-reported Crime Severity Index, both the volume and the severity of crime in Canada had been...

OTTAWA-- The Green Party of Canada encourages Canadians to take a fewminutes today and remember the six million Jews who were murdered in theNazi Holocaust during WWII.  It is important to bear witness to this horrificperiod in our history and remember the terrible acts perpetrated byintolerance,...

OTTAWA—Dufferin-Caledon candidate Ard Van Leeuwen has been appointed Finance Critic by Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada...

OTTAWA--Canada must immediately intercede with the government of Sri Lanka on behalf of the civilians trapped in the battle zone. The thousands of Tamil Canadians demonstrating across Canada should be listened to by the Conservative government...

WINNIPEG--The Green Party of Canada wishes to express its concern for the victims of the Red River flooding and its appreciation of the hundreds of emergency workers and volunteers who have put so much effort into helping their neighbour’s in facing the rising flood waters of the Red River.“My...

REGINA-- Saskatchewan in its headlong rush to drag the province into a nuclear boondoggle is proceeding with a flawed consultation process...

OTTAWA-- The decision of the federal court in the case of the firing of Linda Keen as president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) calls into question the independence of nuclear safety in Canada and opens it up to political interference. The court ruled Ms...