Elizabeth May
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"Elizabeth Evans May" is an Canadians of American origin/American-born Canadian environmentalist, writer, activist, lawyer, and politician currently serving as leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament (Canada)/Member of Parliament for Saanich—Gulf Islands. She was the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006. She became a Canadian citizen in 1978, and stated in a letter to the editor published in The Globe and Mail in February 2014 that she did not retain her US citizenship.

May's permanent residence is in Sidney, British Columbia. Her family home is in Margaree Harbour, Nova Scotia/Margaree Harbour, Cape Breton Island. On May 2, 2011, she became the first elected Green Party Member of Parliament (Canada)/Member of Parliament in Canada, defeating the incumbent Conservative Member of Parliament and cabinet minister, Gary Lunn.

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Then I started feeling better. There were all these things I could do.

I felt like an idiot.

They could have dealt with it, probably, without raising the ire of some of the people in the environmental movement if all they'd done was to say that the section is titled 'Toxics and other substances of concern.'

If they want to commit political suicide and take this province towards new nuclear power plants, I suppose you could suggest they're prepared to do it.

I don't think they are, but it falls to us to make sure, as the citizens of Ontario, that this does not happen.

We had to work out how the world was going to be divided up and, using props and costumes, we had to stage a ten minute play.

We will raise holy hell.

We have a lot of positive, constructive American engagement here in Montreal ? and none of it's from the Bush administration, which represents the single biggest threat to global progress.

It's the nightmare scenario that environmental activists around the world have been hoping would be avoided.