Elizabeth May (politician)

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Elizabeth May

Elizabeth May (born June 9, 1954 in Hartford , Connecticut ) is a Canadian environmental activist, author , politician and lawyer . She is a member of the Canadian House of Commons and was party leader of the Canadian Green Party from 2006 to 2019 .

biography

May was born in the USA. Her American mother was an anti-nuclear activist and a co-founder of the SANE peace organization . Her British father was the Vice President of Aetna Life and Casualty . May attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington , Connecticut. In 1972 her family moved to Margaree Harbor , Nova Scotia . After finishing school, she attended university and graduated from Dalhousie Law School in 1983 . During this time she campaigned against the Swedish company Stora Enso , which used 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid as herbicides . In 1989 she was elected to the board of directors of the Sierra Club of Canada .

In 2001, she went on a 17-day hunger strike to protest the failure of the Canadian government in the case of the Sydney Tar Ponds in Cape Breton . In August 2006, May was elected to succeed Jim Harris as chairwoman of the party. In the 2011 general election , she won in her constituency Saanich — Gulf Islands on Vancouver Island , making her the first elected Green MP in the Canadian lower house. She was able to defend this seat in the general election in 2015 and 2019 . On November 4, 2019, she resigned as party leader of the Greens after 13 years in office. Jo-Ann Roberts followed her interim .

Web links

Commons : Elizabeth May  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth May - Biography, Green Party of Canada, 2008
  2. ↑ Elizabeth May Profil, London, Ontario: London Free Press, August 27, 2006
  3. ↑ Library of Canada: Biography ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.collectionscanada.ca
  4. ↑ Sierra Club: Article on the hunger strike because of the Sydney Tar Ponds ( Memento from August 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Leyland Cecco: Canada's Green party leader Elizabeth May to step down after 13 years. In: The Guardian . November 4, 2019, accessed February 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME May, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartford , Connecticut