Greenpeace Canada initiatives on iconic Niagara falls forward of federal elections: Don’t Trump Canada

Greenpeace Canada initiatives on iconic Niagara falls forward of federal elections: Don’t Trump Canada

NIAGARA FALLS – Greenpeace Canada’s activists projected highly effective messages on the world well-known Niagara Falls this night: “Don’t Trump Canada”, “Elbows up” and “Time to RESIST”. Days earlier than Canadians will vote to elect their subsequent Prime Minister, Greenpeace Canada is looking out politicians like Trump and Poilievre for spreading concern and division, whereas polluting industries like oil & gasoline search to benefit from a disaster they helped create. Greenpeace Canada is asking Poilievre and all political events to guard folks and the setting, not polluters and billionaires.

“The identical Massive Oil and billionaires behind Trump are supporting politicians like Pierre Poilievre to push via a Trump-style agenda right here in Canada: eradicate hard-won environmental protections, tax breaks for the wealthy and assaults on essentially the most susceptible in our society. We will’t and gained’t allow them to,” mentioned Keith Stewart, Senior Vitality Strategist at Greenpeace Canada. 

Pierre Poilievre presents himself as a champion of the working class, railing in opposition to the elite and fuelling public anger over inequality and rising prices, however Greenpeace Canada has been mentioning his double-speak, calling him out for shielding polluters and betraying folks [1] [2]. Greenpeace Canada is asking Poilievre and all political events to guard folks and the setting, not polluters and billionaires, by defending environmental laws, social applications, and supporting measures that put extra money in folks’s wallets, and never billionaire’s [3] [4].

“That is our second to construct a greater Canada. Collectively, we now have the ability to guard our rights and setting. This begins by holding accountable politicians supporting polluters and billionaires, and demanding a extra truthful, habitable and inexpensive future for all, ” added Stewart. 

This exercise was additionally a solidarity assertion in assist of Greenpeace USA, who has been discovered answerable for greater than US$660 million within the Vitality Switch SLAPP trial a few weeks in the past [5], a really regarding instance of Trump-style politics and Massive Oil bullies makes an attempt all over the world to silence free speech and peaceable protest, reminding us why we have to stand in opposition to Maple MAGA in Canada.

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Notes to editor:

Photographs and movies of Greenpeace motion will be discovered within the Greenpeace media library (they are going to be uploaded all through the day)

For extra data, please contact:

Keith Stewart, Senior Vitality Strategist, Greenpeace Canada [email protected] ;

+1 416 659-0294