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Federal Election 2025

Canada is holding a federal election on April 28, 2025. While tariffs, the economy and our very sovereignty are on our minds this election, the ties that bind us together as a country run deeper: iconic landscapes, clean air and water, fairness for everyone and hope for future generations. 

Voter Toolkit 

This election is an opportunity to help shape the priorities of our country. Right now, it is crucial to talk to your friends and family and engage with your political candidates on the issues that you care about.  

The EAC has published a voter toolkit to help you have some of those important conversations. Get your copy of the toolkit here! 

The topics in this toolkit are areas where the EAC has ongoing work and where we have identified clear federal actions that could be done quickly to have meaningful impacts on our communities. Given the growing polarization of political discourse, we have also included a section with tips for having difficult conversations with people who may not share your viewpoint. 

the cover of EAC's federal election toolkit

Environment Pledges

 16 of Canada's leading environmental organizations sent questionnaires to the federal political parties. A summary of responses received from four of the five main parties are reproduced on this page (one party did not respond). For detailed responses to each question from each party, click here.

Summary of Responses

  Bloc Quebecois Conservative Party Green Party Liberal Party New Democratic Party
1. Will you ensure that Canada meets its national and international carbon pollution reduction targets as detailed in the Paris Agreement and the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act? Yes. See detailed response. No response. Yes. See detailed response. See detailed response. Yes. See detailed response.
2. Will you ensure that Canada meets its international biodiversity targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss as detailed in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework? Yes. See detailed response. No response. Yes. See detailed response. See detailed response. Yes. See detailed response.
3. Will you eliminate all taxpayer subsidies, public financing, and other fiscal supports that are harmful to the climate and nature, including those to the oil and gas sector, petrochemical producers, industrial-scale resource extraction, and environmentally damaging land-use practices, and ensure that these companies do not pass the costs of reducing emissions or environmental clean-up onto the public? Yes. See detailed response. No response. Yes. See detailed response. See detailed response. Partial. See detailed response.
4. Will you support Indigenous-led conservation through policies and practices including: working in partnership with Indigenous Peoples across Canada to make collaborative decisions about the use of land, freshwater, and oceans, and supporting an increase of funding support to the Land Guardians programs, which are helping to drive the economic prosperity of Indigenous Peoples, while upholding their cultural and ecological values? Yes. See detailed response. No response. Yes. See detailed response. See detailed response. Yes. See detailed response.
5. Will you establish a permanent, high-level Office of Environmental Justice to implement Canada’s first national strategy on environmental racism and environmental justice to ensure that racialized and disadvantaged communities no longer bear a disproportionate burden from environmental degradation and preventable environmental health hazards? Partial. See detailed response. No response. Yes. See detailed response. See detailed response. Yes. See detailed response.
6. Will you deliver a plan for upgrading Canada’s electricity grid and achieving affordable, secure, net-zero electricity throughout Canada by 2035? Partial. See detailed response. No response. Yes. See detailed response. See detailed response. Yes. See detailed response.
7. Will you reinforce Canada’s Zero Plastic Waste agenda, including expanding Canada’s single use plastic bans and working with other high-ambition countries to develop a global plastics treaty that aims to end plastic pollution by 2040? Yes. See detailed response. No response. Yes. See detailed response. See detailed response. Yes. See detailed response.
8. Will you expedite the phase out of forever chemicals (PFAS), including in consumer products, to protect people in Canada? Yes. See detailed response. No response. Yes. See detailed response. See detailed response. Yes. See detailed response.
9. Will you provide long-term funding for Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan to better protect the health of people and the environment from toxic exposures, including harmful chemicals in consumer products? Partial. See detailed response. No response. Yes. See detailed response. See detailed response. Yes.

 

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