Activist Anglican new leader of Green Party.Elizabeth May, Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canada's highest civilian honour within the Canadian system of honours, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Order's Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means "(those) desiring a better country" (Hebrews 11:16). recipient and prominent environmental activist, is the new leader of the Green Party of Canada The Green Party of Canada is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1983. As of August 27, 2006, the party has over 10,000 registered members — making the Greens the largest federal party in Canada without representation in Parliament. . Ms. May, 52, won the leadership at the party's convention in Ottawa on Aug. 26 and announced later that she intends to run for a Cape Breton seat in the next federal election. Ms. May, an Anglican, was executive director of the Sierra Club Sierra Club, national organization in the United States dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the world's parks, wildlife, and wilderness areas. Founded (1892) in California by a group led by the Scottish-American conservationist John Muir, the Sierra Club for 17 years; she became active in the environmental movement in the 1970s when she led the legal battle to put an end to to destroy. - Fuller. See also: End insecticide spraying near her Cape Breton home. In 2002, she participated in a 17-day hunger strike on Parliament Hill to focus attention on the plight of residents near the contaminated coal tar ponds in Sydney, N.S. Environmentalism, she once said, is "fundamentally a spiritual issue." Staff |
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