On May 2, 2011, May became the first member of the Green Party of Canada to be elected as a May first became known in the Canadian media in the mid-1970s through her leadership as a volunteer in the grassroots movement against proposed aerial insecticide spraying on forests near her home on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
Years later, she and a local group of residents went to court to prevent herbicide spraying.
This isn’t one of them,” he said.Get the top stories emailed every day. Copyright © 2020 HuffPost.com, Inc. "HuffPost" is a registered trademark of HuffPost.com, Inc. All rights reserved. SUBSCRIBE TO THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER
I’m a Canadian and only a Canadian,” former prime minister Stephen Harper that appeared to take a swipe at incoming governor general Jean for having dual citizenship. attempted Friday to distance himself from his party’s past criticism of federal leaders who, like him, hold dual citizenship.“I wasn’t leading the party at that time,” the Tory leader twice told reporters in Toronto asking about his party’s treatment of other political figures in the same boat as him.“It’s not a big deal in Canada for people to have dual citizenship. In the course of the litigation, her family sacrificed their home and seventy acres of land in an adverse court ruling to Scott Paper. Elizabeth Evans May OC MP (born June 9, 1954) is a Canadian politician who served as leader of the Green Party of Canada from 2006 to 2019 and Member of Parliament for Saanich—Gulf Islands since 2011.
The Dutch government wants to limit dual nationality as much as possible. "On May 9, 2006, May entered the Green Party of Canada's On August 26, 2006, May won the leadership election on the first ballot. As one of her last major acts she participated in a poll of experts that determined that Upon leaving the Sierra Club, Board President Louise Comeau noted, "Elizabeth has led the Club at the national level from its infancy to the enormously effective entity it is today, she was also instrumental in supporting development of the Sierra Youth Coalition, the Atlantic Canada Chapter and other Sierra Club chapters and local grassroots groups. Her U.S. citizenship was revoked in 1978 when she became a Canadian, as the law required at that time.
And the Greens’ Elizabeth May is spending most of her time on local debates in her Vancouver Island riding, but is promising an announcement in Victoria on tree-planting. At a campaign event in Quebec City Friday, Trudeau said there is nothing about having dual citizenship that should disqualify anyone from being a politician.“But I do think that you have to be honest with Canadians when you’re applying for a job to be prime minister of 37 million Canadians,” he said.“But I think that this is a distraction, to be perfectly honest with you.
I’ve always followed those laws,” he said, adding that all of his income has been earned in Canada and that his salary is “publicly available” on the House of Commons website.Scheer also told reporters he wasn’t sure if he registered for the United States draft, something that is legally required of adult men who, like him, hold dual Canada-U.S. citizenship.“I would have to check and get back to you on that,” Scheer said when asked if he registered within with the U.S. For instance, your country of origin may require you to do compulsory military service. I can criticize Mr. Scheer for a lot of reasons. Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is joining a chorus of concern about a Conservative law that revokes citizenship from convicted terrorists, days after …
The Conservative leader said he let his American passport expire and met U.S. consular officials in August to start the process of renouncing his U.S. citizenship.The revelation sparked controversy because Scheer’s party criticized two former aspirants for the prime minister’s job — former Liberal leader — because they both held dual Canadian-French citizenship.“I’m very clear. May was the longest serving female leader of a Canadian federal party.