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Shuswap Climate Action Society
supporting community knowledge and solutions
Upcoming Events
Salmon Arm-Shuswap Electoral District
All-Candidates Forum on Climate Change
The party that forms the next government has a huge task ahead to establish effective policies to meet BC's greenhouse gas reduction targets and ensure climate resilience.
Our online candidates forum featured only two of the five candidates running for election in the Salmon Arm-Shuswap riding including: Sylvia Lindgren with the BC NDP and Jed Wiebe with the BC Greens. Unfortunately, Greg McCune and Sherry Roy, both independent candidates, and David Williams with the BC Conservatives did not participate.
Questions focussed on the candidates' stance on climate change and party platforms and policies to address the crisis.
The event was recorded and available on our YouTube Channel or through the link provided below.
Election Resources
There is a lot of political rhetoric about the price on carbon but very little information being offered by some candidates. This article from The Narwhal provides some history and an explanation of the carbon tax which was instituted in 2008 by the BC Liberal Party under Gordon Campbell (when John Rustad was a BC Liberal MLA).
On September 25, the National Observer published a very useful article that outlines the where the three main parties stand on climate change. The parties may have released more fulsome information since that article was written, so we advise that you check with your candidates.
The BC Climate Emergency Campaign has an election 2024 toolkit to assist voters who may have questions for their candidates related to climate and amplify their 10 actions that government should take tom address the climate crisis.
West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL) has posted background information and formulated 5 questions that you can refer to when asking your candidates about environmental actions government should take to address the climate crisis.
The West Coast Climate Action Network (WE-CAN) has listed 10 areas of questioning that may help you when interacting with candidates from the three main parties but also covers question on the topics of the climate crisis, fracking and LNG, to farming and emissions from the building sector.
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Our Organization
We are a non-profit, non-partisan group of volunteers and concerned citizens providing information and community support for climate action in the Shuswap region of British Columbia, Canada.
Become a Member
We welcome returning and new members!
2024 annual membership renewals and new memberships are $20 (for individual) or
$30 (for a family membership of two or more people living in the same household).
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Contact Us!
We are based in beautiful Salmon Arm, BC.
Email us at shuswap.climate@telus.net
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Shuswap Climate Action Society gratefully acknowledge we are on the unceded and unsurrendered traditional lands of the Secwépemc Nation.
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