Canadian Youth Stage Sit-In in Parliament
December 10th, 2009
Six youth were arrested and charged with trespassing after a peaceful sit-in inside the House of Commons Environment Committee at 11:30am.
“Pleas from Canadian youth for politicians to take action to protect their future and make climate justice a priority were ignored by parliamentarians,” said Cameron Gray.
In the meeting, the Conservatives made clear that they would only support the return of bill of C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act, to the House of Commons in order to then vote it down.
And some media coverage:
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Politics/Power_&_Politics/ID=1353729650 (10th minute mark)
http://www.mediacoop.ca/blog/tim-mcsorley/2230
This post was submitted by Cameron Fenton.
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I found the CBC interview just before 24min into the Dec. 8th episode of Power & Politics
Other material about that parliament sit-in has been posted here -
http://m4cj.wordpress.com/info/media/actions/december-8th-ottawa-parliament-sit-in/
That page is one of the several pages — about Canadian climate justice actions — that our local climate justice group has set up -
http://m4cj.wordpress.com/info/media/actions/