Courtenay-Alberni candidate profile: Susanne Lawson, Green Party of Canada – Parksville …

After a long stressful winter of disease, pipeline and logging protests, climate extremes, fires, floods and global challenges, I wondered how I could respond to these and bring about some positive change in our society.

Issues like climate extremes, health, imbalance of wealth, taxation, fisheries and ocean life, forests, energy, employment and food security are just some of the challenges facing us all.

I studied arts and languages at McGill University and graphic design at a French University in Montreal where I worked as a graphic designer before moving permanently to the West Coast.

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