GREEN PARTY - Key Persons
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- Member of the Ombuds and Appeals Committee
- Interim Co - Chair )
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- Member of the Ombuds and Appeals Committee
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- WOMEN and GENDER CRITIC & INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS CRITIC
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- NATIONAL REVENUE CRITIC & DEMOCRATIC REFORM CRITIC
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- Member of the Ombuds and Appeals Committee
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- Artificial Intelligence Critic
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- Critic for Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness
Elizabeth May is one of Canada's best known parliamentarians and a life-long environmental advocate. She is currently the Parliamentary Leader of the Green Party of Canada, representing the southern Vancouver Island riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands on the territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation. Before running for elected office, she worked as a lawyer, a governmental policy advisor and Executive Director of Sierra Club of Canada (1989-2006).
Elizabeth was the ninth leader of the Green Party of Canada (2006 - 2019) and the first Canadian Green to be elected. Since taking her seat in the House of Commons in 2011, she has been a leading voice for action on climate change, reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples and electoral reform, among many other issues. Although individual MPs seldom get even one bill passed into law, Elizabeth has sponsored two pieces of legislation that are now law in Canada: the Federal Lyme Disease Strategy Act 2014 and the 2018 Bill amending the Criminal Code to ban the keeping of cetaceans in captivity. Her fellow MPs have voted her Parliamentarian of the Year (2012), Hardest Working MP (2013), Best Orator (2014) and Most Knowledgeable MP (2020).
She is an officer of the Order of Canada and the UN named her one of the world's leading women environmentalists. Her eight books include the best-selling memoir Who We Are - Reflections on My Life and Canada. Elizabeth lives in Sidney B.C. with her husband John Kidder.
Elizabeth May's life is defined by one word: service. Service to community, country and planet. One of Canada's best-known parliamentarians, she is a lifelong environmentalist. From 2006 to 2019, she led the Green Party of Canada through four federal elections, including the breakthrough 2011 election in which she became Canada's first elected Green.
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- Member of the Ombuds and Appeals Committee
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- Diversity & Inclusion Critic
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- DEPUTY LEADER & FOREIGN AFFAIRS CRITIC
At age 17, Jonathan Pedneault smuggled himself into Darfur in the back of a pick-up truck filled with rebels to document the deadly rights and environmental crisis for a CBC/Radio Canada documentary. By then, he had spent two years giving conferences to fellow students about genocide and Canada's responsibility to prevent mass atrocities. That was his first foray into foreign reporting and his earliest venture into politics.
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- International Development Critic and Environment & Climate Change Co - Critic
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- Member of the Ombuds and Appeals Committee
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- Housing Critic & Critic for Disability Inclusion
In 2019, Mike increased Kitchener Centre's Green vote from three per cent to 26 per cent. In 2021, he built on this momentum and was elected as Ontario's first Green MP.
Now as a parliamentarian, Mike is committed to democracy in place of politics; serving his neighbours with integrity and working respectfully with fellow MPs.
He was named Young Alumnus of the Year by Laurier (2011), Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the KW Chamber of Commerce (2012), given a Special Citation for Social Entrepreneurship by Ernst & Young Canada (2018), and was named an Ashoka Fellow in 2012.
Today, Mike lives on block 2 of the Haldimand Tract, in the Cherry Park neighbourhood of Kitchener.
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- Member of the Ombuds and Appeals Committee
- Co - Chair )
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- Member of the Ombuds and Appeals Committee
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- Transportation & Infrastructure Critic
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- Seniors Critic ( on Temporary Leave )
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- Official Languages Critic