Ask your candidates the questions below and find out where they stand on the environment and nature conservation. And don’t forget to vote for nature on election day!
- Will you complete Canada’s system of National Parks, National Wildlife Areas, Marine Protected Areas, and Migratory Bird Sanctuaries?
- Will you announce a strategy to protect and manage globally and nationally significant Important Bird Areas in Canada?
- Will you work with the provinces to achieve a country-wide goal of protecting a minimum of 50 percent of Canada’s boreal forest?
- Are you committed to meeting the Kyoto Protocol on global warming?
- Will you put a price on carbon that reflects its full social and environmental costs, and that applies broadly in Canada’s economy as soon as possible?
- What will your party do to ensure that the Arctic environment (including habitat for terrestrial and marine wildlife and migratory birds) is protected from the impacts of oil and gas development and shipping?
- What will you do to develop healthy values towards nature in our young people, and address the crisis in Canadian society known as “nature deficit disorder?”
- Will you support a comprehensive Canada-wide water strategy to conserve water through such measures as national appliance water-efficiency standards and the protection and restoration of vulnerable waters such as the Great Lakes, Arctic Ocean and Bay of Fundy?
- Will you commit Canada to becoming a world leader in the production of low-impact renewable sources of electricity, heat and fuels by 2020?
- What will your party do to strengthen the Species at Risk Act, and its implementation, to ensure that all the critical habitat of at-risk species is effectively protected?
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