Environmental Stewardship

"PICTURE IT" #6 ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP: CANADA WITH PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION

Picture it— Canada 2015. There is no need for Justin Trudeau and Liberal candidates to promise electoral reform 1,813 times during the election campaign. There is no need because 1921 was the last election using the undemocratic, unfair, first-past-the-post system. Since 1925, our proportional representation system has ensured that our environmental policies are determined by scientific evidence, not political ideology.

After the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in 1988, Canada used it to guide our response to climate change. We consistently meet and exceed our Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement greenhouse gas reduction targets. This is largely due to the active youth vote that prioritizes planetary care over corporate profit.

We experienced a fair and just transition to renewable energy unlike the United States. It fell prey to climate change denial lobbying powered by a coalition of well-funded fossil fuel companies and industry groups. Canada's basic annual income supported fossil fuel workers as they retrained for jobs in the renewable energy sector. Canada is currently a world leader in renewable energy innovation and usage.

Canada immediately signed the "4 per 1000" initiative and committed to implementing its regenerative agriculture strategy to mitigate climate change and increase food security. Regenerative agriculture not only sequesters carbon dioxide reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but it increases soil health while creating sustainable incomes.

Canadian voters trust proportional representation to secure environmental stewardship through social justice.

If you wish this picture were true, help make it true. Support electoral reform with proportional representation.

View the video at #6 Environmental Stewardship.