Welcome to Ottawa! Including to everyone driving big trucks en masse from across the country into downtown in the next couple of days. We’re so glad you could join us for Climate Action Week.
Climate Action Week is all about sustainable and renewable energy, focused on practical solutions to energy challenges. Yes, there are solutions, and yes, it’s time.
I get it. I want to be heard, be treated fairly and keep my family warm, healthy and safe too. My family roots are in fact in rural Alberta and small town B.C. and Saskatchewan, where my ancestors settled on Cree and other Indigenous lands and made a living there. I currently depend on fossil fuels that others work hard to provide.
The thing is, that’s what unsustainable means. An energy economy and livelihoods that are built on unsustainable energy sources—not to mention on trampling on Indigenous rights and damaging the environment that we all depend on—can’t last. We have to stop investing in this and make the transition to alternative sources, together. That—not fear and frustration and hatred—is what should unite us.
If your purpose in coming is to spread hatred and chaos, don’t bother. We have no room for that in this city, or this country.
If you’re a public figure trying to score political points from this mess, you should stop, and repair the damage you’ve caused.
If you’re concerned about all of this, help draw attention to the people, groups and businesses who are finding solutions. That’s the way we will all survive.
Green Living Ottawa 
Thank you for this. Let’s focus on sustainable solutions, stop polluting the air and water for future generations. Adapt or perish? After listening to the news and reading reports, I find it confusing what some of the fringe participants are pushing as concerns.