Wednesday April 22, 2026 | SIDNEY, BC [Posted at 3:06 pm PT | Updated 7:02 pm PT]
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
“We are back to where we started,” says Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.
She’s talking about the movement to inform people about how the planet Earth’s environment is impacted by human choices.
“Grassroots education, town by town and block by block is essential. We can get information into people’s hands, but we have to compete with monstrous disinformation technology, whether AI or social media,” said May in a message issued on Earth Day today.
“Grassroots Greens need the tools to communicate and educate,” says May.
She is calling for “teach-ins” about the threatened environment — in particular so that people can learn more about the impacts of burning fossil fuels.
“The stakes have never been higher. The war to end fossil fuels must be won, just as we must protect our old growth and replant the world’s mangrove forests,” says May.
Career-long work:
Elizabeth May was first motivated back in 1970 on the first Earth Day. She was later on a key force in seeing Canada and the US eliminate acid rain in the Greater Lakes region that had resulted from over-fertilization and phosphates in detergents causing eutrophication.
She studied law at Dalhousie and became an environmental lawyer in the mid-1980s.
Becoming leader of the Green Party of Canada in 2006, Elizabeth May was first elected as a federal Member of Parliament in 2011, then re-elected in 2015, 2019, 2021 and 2025.
She represents the riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands on south Vancouver Island (including the Gulf Islands), frequently meeting with local constituents across the riding at at events or online.
The Saanich-Gulf Island riding has an abundance of natural environmental landscapes.
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