42 Elizabeth May Quotes for You to Enjoy

Elizabeth May

Canadian Politician

Born: Jul 9, 1954

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I wanted to repeat we cannot vote confidence at any point on a confidence motion in a government that fails to have a climate target that's ground in science and consistent with what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we must do. Elizabeth May

I'm a firm believer that if we could restore real parliamentary democracy, the best way to do that would be to get rid of political parties. Elizabeth May

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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

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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. Elizabeth May

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

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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. Elizabeth May

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I apologize that I made an attempt to be funny and edgy… and it didn't work. Elizabeth May

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

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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. Elizabeth May

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I don't think that, you know, adherence to ignorance is really something that encourages voters to support you. Elizabeth May

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The reality is that Rachel Notley's adherence to pipelines and exporting raw bitumen doesn't make sense for Alberta's economy and it doesn't make sense for Canada. Elizabeth May

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

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

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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. Elizabeth May

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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. Elizabeth May

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I was part of Environment Canada's work to stop acid rain, create national parks, clean up the Great Lakes, develop new environmental legislation and negotiate the treaty that saved the ozone layer. Elizabeth May

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God, we don't have nearly enough skilled carpenters, electricians, plumbers for the work that needs to be done in taking every single building in Canada and making it carbon-zero, a net-neutral building, by improving insulation, modernizing furnaces, improving the geothermal possibilities, heat pumps. Elizabeth May

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Whether we make it a condition or just through persuasion or just through popular support, whatever it takes, we really do need to shift through a system of voting where the way the Canadian public votes is the way the Canadian Parliament is formed after the election. Elizabeth May

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