Act on Climate March

On April 11, we march in Quebec for the climate!
Will you join us for this festive, family friendly event?

On April 14th the Council of the Federation, consisting of the 13 heads of Canada’s provinces and territories, will meet in Quebec City. Climate change will be the only item on their agenda.

2015 is a pivotal year for climate action, full of challenges and urgency, culminating in December’s UN Climate Change Conference in Paris.
Across Canada the mining and transportation of unconventional oil from the tar sands has become a dominant issue. To the west ferocious opposition has stalled the Northern Gateway and Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline projects in their tracks, while to the east almost half a million dollars has already been raised by community groups preparing to fight Transcanada’s proposed Energy East tarsands pipeline.
Stephen Harper calls these pipeline opponents extremists, but unlike his government they represent the views of a majority of Canadians.
A study in the January edition of the journal Nature put our challenge plainly: Canada must leave 85% of the tar sands in the soil in order to help the human race avoid catastrophic climate change.
That means no new tar sands pipelines. No Keystone, no Energy East, no Kinder Morgan, No Northern Gateway. Build even one, and we torpedo our chances of stopping global warming.
We stand on the edge of a precipice, and a lack of political will threatens to send us over it.
It’s time to stand up and speak with one voice: we demand climate protection and renewable energy solutions.

This is why we need you in Quebec on April 11. We need to go all-in. It’s time to act on climate.