Dear Friend,

I was talking with a climate scientist the other day. "My wife," he said,
"tells me no one wants to hear me say 'I told you so.'"

No doubt. He writes "we were warned." but no one wants to hear that either.
And no one, not the CBC nor the Globe and Mail wants to hear us ask "why
are people not connecting the dots?". Food costs more when crops fail and
heat blisters the early fruit and late frosts kill the seeds before
flowering. Who wants to know that low water levels from global heating
strand the freighters in their course and disrupt the supply chains, still
faltering after COVID. Who wants to connect the dots?

I write this as over 400 wildfires burn across British Columbia and we come
to grips with the horrifying news that the scenic mountain village of
Jasper, nestled in one of the great wilderness jewels of the planet, a
UNESCO world heritage site of Jasper National Park, is engulfed in flames.
And what of the bears and the elk and all the forest creatures who like the
Australian koalas will have burned paws and walls of fire that block their
escape to cool mountain streams?

I know Jasper well. It is one of the few stops on the transcontinental VIA
rail voyage where passengers have more than an hour to de-train and
explore. I know where to turn to find the pharmacy and which way to go to
an excellent Italian restaurant. I wonder if it is still there. As a
British Columbian, I know that the hopeful and naive "We will rebuild"
sentiment will be met with the harsh reality of "maybe." Lytton burned to
the ground in 15 minutes in July 2021 and it took over two years for a
single home to be allowed to start reconstruction. The town's bylaws burned
up in the fire. So did the town's brand new fire engine, before it could
get out of the fire house. And on those same days of extreme heat, my
husband's farm, 40 km from Lytton, hit 50 degrees Celsius, and my
step-daughter in her thirties nearly died of the heat. Others were not so
lucky. According to the BC Coroners office, in four days, 619 BC residents
died of heat in that 2021 heat dome.

I will connect the dots - from the greed of Oil and Gas CEOs who want to
get every last dollar before the inevitable moment that they are forced to
shut down - just as the asbestos industry was forced to shut down and
before that, the manufacturers of the chemicals that were destroying the
ozone layer.

Now is the race between people fighting for survival and those fighting for
the last immoral dollar to line their pockets.
More than ever, we need the voices of elected Greens - in every province
and in the Parliament of Canada. To meet moronic rhetoric and rhyming
sloganeering with science and evidence. More than ever we need Greens
elected who are unafraid to speak the truth and provide the leadership that
steers us away from danger to a safer future on a distant shore. We can see
it from here. That future is real and achievable, but not when we are
separated and afraid. PLEASE SEND WHAT YOU CAN TO SUPPORT GREENS. [1] There
are many federal by-elections coming up and the next general election.

SUPPORT GREENS [1]

Together we are resilient. Together we can win.

ELIZABETH E. MAY, O.C.
Leader, Green Party of Canada

Update Your Information [2] | Modifier votre langue [3]

This email was sent to: [email protected]. We believe that emails are
a vital way to stay in direct contact with supporters like you. If you'd
like you can unsubscribe from this type of mailing [4] or opt-out of all
mailings [5]. To contact us please reply to this email.

Our mailing address: PO Box 997, STN B, Ottawa ON, K1P 5R1. Call us
toll-free: 1-866-868-3447

Authorized by the Green Party of Canada Fund, Chief Agent for the Green
Party of Canada.



Links:
------
[1] [link removed]
[2] [link removed]
[3] [link removed]
[4] [link removed]
[5] [link removed]