Heckling “tunes people out of their democracy,” she says - Elizabeth May

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Heckling “tunes people out of their democracy,” she says

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Elizabeth Evans May OC MP (born 9 June 1954) is an American-born Canadian Member of Parliament, environmentalist, writer, activist, lawyer, and the leader of the Green Party of Canada. She was the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006. She became a Canadian citizen in 1978.

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Alternative Names: Elizabeth Evans May Elisabeth Evans May
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You can’t deal with an issue like climate change if you basically abandon a healthy democracy and allow a corporatist culture to make the decisions. So you need engaged citizens, and you need Occupy,” she says. “You need people who have never seen themselves as political to become political. We need maybe 15 to 20 percent of Canadians to become really engaged and demand better. And then we’ll get it.”

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