Climate change | Pierre Poilievre targeted by environmental activists

Environmental activists lined up at the entrance to Pierre Poilievre’s official residence at dawn Thursday morning in Ottawa to denounce the Conservative Party’s “anti-climate program,” which “betrays” the Canadian population. They were arrested in the morning.

The two Greenpeace activists had installed with them an artistic work depicting an oil pump jack surrounded by flames and burned forests, as well as charred wood from the 2021 fire that destroyed the town of Lytton, Colombia. British.

The environmental organization is alarmed by the conservative leader’s desire “to grant privileges to large oil and gas companies”, while an electoral campaign is looming on the horizon, Laura Bergamo said in a press release. spokesperson for Greenpeace Canada.

The conservatives oppose the climate measures put in place by the liberal government; In particular, they promise to abolish federal pricing on corporate pollution, the clean fuel standard and the cap on emissions from the oil and gas sector.

“Pierre Poilievre would protect polluters to the detriment of the population, and would ruin our last chance to achieve Canada’s objectives by the 2030 deadline set by the Paris Agreement,” criticizes the organization.

Greenpeace recalls that the Conservatives held a fundraising evening during which senior representatives of the hydrocarbon industry paid $1,700 to spend the evening with chef Pierre Poilievre, in April 2023, in Alberta.

“While he attends fundraisers hosted by wealthy polluters, the rest of us struggle even harder to make ends meet because we now also have to pay the costs of freak climate disasters like heat, floods and forest fires,” says M^me Bergamo.

“We are not going to stand by while a potential prime minister trashes our climate protection plan,” said Ms.^me Bergamo.

The activists demanded “a credible plan” in the fight against climate change from Pierre Poilievre and the opportunity to discuss with him, but the Conservative leader did not go to meet them and the Ottawa police made their arrest shortly after 9 a.m., after firefighters broke their chains.

Pierre Poilievre’s office did not call back The PressThursday morning.