Fill the Hill October 24, 2009

Members of the Oshawa Federal Green Party were happy to attend PowerShift Canada’s 2009 Conference in Ottawa, Ontario October 23 – 26th. PowerShift Canada was organized and held by youth activists across our great country.

A group attending one of the workshops.

On October 23-26, 2009, over 1000 young people from across the country  converged on Ottawa to take a message of bold, comprehensive and immediate federal climate action to Parliament Hill. Power Shift was two days of training, strategy and action and one mass lobby day to hold our elected officials accountable to for their part to solve the climate crisis, and to build a cohesive and effective youth climate movement. This was the largest-ever gathering of young people on the environment in the history of this country.

At Power Shift Canada, they delivered our message of change to our elected officials. Youth of all backgrounds came together to create a fresh, positive, and inspiring vision of the future, one focused on our potential to overcome the challenges of the 21st century, build a clean energy economy, create millions of green jobs, increase global equity, and revitalize our economy. Now is the time for action. Now is the time for boldness. We will accept nothing less from the people with whom we have entrusted our future: our elected officials, and most importantly, ourselves. 2009 will be a year history will remember.

On Monday October 26th meetings were arranged with local MP’s and Oshawa youth were happy to have Colin Carrie meet with them to discuss their issues and concerns about his governments stance on climate issues and their reluctance to pass Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act.

Meeting with Oshawa MP Colin Carrie