Elizabeth May Quotes

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Elizabeth May

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 9, 1954

The process of forming government in a minority is one where you talk to everyone and see: What do you have in common? And is there enough commonality?

Elizabeth May

The oilsands will be phased out by 2030 or 2035.

Elizabeth May

I've been a feminist all my life, or at least as long as I've been conscious of being a woman.

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I don't think that anyone is for abortion in the sense that you hope people are going to have abortions. You hope in an ideal world that every pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.

Elizabeth May

If one group of people say a woman has a right to choose, I get queasy because I'm against abortion. I don't think a woman has a frivolous right to choose. What I don't want is a desperate woman to die in an illegal abortion.

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We cannot ever accept a government that thinks they can get away with tiny targets on climate which they then don't achieve.

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ncrementalism is out, and doing deals with people just for power, when our children's futures at stake is not something I will ever do.

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I can work with anyone.

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You have to look at what the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous people says which is free and prior informed consent. Now, if you say 'we're going to build a pipeline, what does it take for us as the colonial power of Canada to make you agree?' That's not free, prior and informed consent, that's coercion.

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I stick to stuff I'm pretty sure of and I know this: when the price of a barrel of oil is under $80 a barrel and you build a pipeline, you are driving up greenhouse gases.

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The National Energy Board process was completely flawed. It didn't allow interveners to do cross-examination, and they said we could do paper questions.

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The safest way to ship bitumen is by rail. Now, there are other things that you get doing it that way. There's probably more greenhouse gases in shipping it by rail. I think certainly there are.

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In the world of globalization, the fossil fuel masters of the universe who are digging up our boreal forest and our muskeg and scraping out the bitumen would rather have Canadians take all the risks - and then the oceans take the risks to ship it to refineries that they've already built in other countries rather than create jobs for Canadians here.

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My constituency is my top priority.

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I never heckle. I never swear.

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Anyone can have a bad night and anyone can have a bad attempt at comedy.

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It doesn't make sense to have a bitumen export economy.

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For as long as we're using fossil fuels at all, globally, Canadians should be using Canadian sources.

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We import a lot of oil, particularly to eastern Canada, from Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, a lot from the U.S. So if we're looking at how do we phase out fossil fuels in the period in which we're phasing them out, let's only use Canadian.

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When we talk about product by pipeline or product by rail we need to be highly specific about what product we are shipping and under what terms and for what purpose. Solid bitumen by rail is safe as houses, but as again crude by rail poses different risk.

Elizabeth May