Disrupt the Status Quo

We don’t have time for a moderate or incremental approach. We need to act as if this is a crisis and we need to come together in a new way that is more than business as usual – as Elizabeth May points out;

On the climate front, May’s party laid its bold ambitions bare last month, unveiling “Mission Possible” — an all-hands-on-deck approach that would strip divisive politics from the climate crisis, empowering an inner cabinet of all parties to guide the country through stringent new emissions targets, including net-zero by 2050.

Canada’s Greens say their plan echoes the war cabinets of Mackenzie King and Winston Churchill, when the need for victory transcended partisanship. Such all-party collaboration is appropriate and necessary, May argues, in the face of a threat greater than any war Canada has known.

“It’s not a political target; it’s a target that science is telling us we can’t afford to miss. We have a window in the next 10 years to hold global average temperature rise to 1.5 C and this is what it is going to take — and if we don’t the window closes permanently,” said May.

“So that’s why we’re rallying around the notion of Mission Possible. It’s not Mission Easy. It’s not Mission Politically Impossible. We can do this.”