Between extreme weather events, unrealized opportunities to participate in a greening economy and growing impatience with the efforts of political leaders thus far to respond to the “code red” crisis of man-made climate change, Green party candidates in the National Capital Region see plenty of reasons why their party is the one to cast a ballot for in 2021.
“I’m ex-military, and so I feel that … there was a huge distraction, obviously, in the party.
She’s actually very impressed with Paul — “to err is human,” she said of the “significant misstep” in the spring — and everyone looks laser-focused on the campaign and getting out their messaging on the climate emergency.
In Ottawa, farmers have been dealing with inconsistent weather, and all residents have been sweating through a heat wave.
There’s the United Nations climate change report of early August, which found that changes already set in motion will be irreversible for lifetimes, but that humans still have a window to avert catastrophe.
As for the party’s “family disputes,” McArthur says they’ll be sorted out and, meanwhile, no one’s expecting the Greens to form government in 2021.
“When you vote for a Green, you’re sending an ambassador of Pontiac to Ottawa.
In her conversations with voters in Ottawa Centre, a constituency that’s highly engaged politically, Angela Keller-Herzog has found that people are aware of the troubles the party was dealing with.
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