Elizabeth May

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The ‘Balance of Responsibility’ and Why I Voted for the Carney Budget

Let’s face it, with 343 MPs in this Parliament and one Green Party seat, I had not imagined that any vote might be so tight that my single “yay” or “nay” could hold sway. Then, based on a combination of minority math and political machination, the knife-edge vote on Mark Carney’s first budget on November 17th came along and the...

Where is the “brainy and thoughtful’ Mark Carney who warned the world of the dangers of climate change?

Where is the “brainy and thoughtful’ Mark Carney who warned the world of the dangers of climate change?

When anyone hears Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre talk about climate, one could wish he would read a book on the subject, or even the Cole’s Notes version. On the other hand, listening to our prime minister, one could wish he would read his own book. On page 273 of his 2021 book “Values,” he wrote: “The carbon budget to limit...

Why we should pull together to tackle Foreign Interference
An Environmentalist Misses Brian Mulroney, All Over Again

An Environmentalist Misses Brian Mulroney, All Over Again

That I should even have been remotely acquainted with Brian Mulroney was a long shot. To have become a friend, and to love him as a friend, was beyond long odds. I was and am an environmental activist. I am deeply opposed to the neoliberal agenda of deregulation, trade liberalization and ever-smaller governments. Yet those ideological goals were the ones...