Elizabeth May Quotes

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Elizabeth May

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 9, 1954

I've been working with every single government since June 1992 to try to get climate action.

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Andrew Scheer talks about an energy corridor. So do I, but his corridor is for pipelines and mine is an electricity grid that's running 100 per cent on renewable energy.

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But Alberta has the best potential of any province for solar energy. It has enormous potential for wind power. And so replacing coal in Alberta with wind and solar is totally doable, and good for their economy.

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I don't like protecting pharmaceutical industries and increasing their profits and making our drugs cost more. If the U.S. Democrats could get rid of those problems I'd be much happier.

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The only thing we're interested in as Greens is making sure that we are protecting Canada from an imminent threat and that imminent threat is the climate crisis.

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Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada's environment.

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The reality of the Green party is that we are a party committed to bringing forward big ideas, new ideas and demonstrating by our conduct in parliament and through the election that we really want to work for Canadians, work across party lines, work across jurisdictions.

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It's very clear the Conservative party does not want to move to real climate action.

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One thing is that you won't get climate action without equity, and Greens around the world have always understood this. This has been the dividing point between the green party of France and Emmanuel Macron: You can't get climate policy without equity.

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The most important thing is guaranteed livable income, which will take a while to bring in because it means all the provinces have to participate.

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I really think a minority Parliament delivers better democracy in Canada when parties are prepared to cooperate.

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The Lester B. Pearson era is what I hope to replicate.

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We've certainly always been a feminist party, with strong feminist principles.

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Women care about a wide range of issues - climate change, social justice. What the Green Party tries to do is apply gender analysis to a whole lot of questions that people might not think of as women's issues. For instance, women in developing countries are the most vulnerable to climate crisis.

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The movement across Canada to fight toxic chemicals is a women's movement. It's a concern about health; it's very intimate.

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And of course the Green Party wants to remove carcinogens from our food, our cosmetics, our backyard pesticides.

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A woman has a right to a safe, legal abortion. I've never wavered in that position since I was, like, eight years old and realized what was going on when I heard my mother arguing with people about the issue.

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Politicians in Canada should not put their religion on their sleeve.

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I try to be friends with everyone.

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We have an existential crisis, which is the climate crisis. Canada is one of the laggards in the industrialized world. Our record is terrible.

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