Ask candidates to sign the Kyotoplus agreement
During the Election, Greenpeace is asking Candidates to support strong action by signing the KYOTOplus Pledge.
Before the Federal Election was called, only about one-third of Canada's 308 Members of Parliament had signed the Pledge.
To join this national effort, download and print the Pledge. Then approach the Candidates in your riding to sign. It is important that you ask Candidates from ALL PARTIES so we can show, riding by riding, who is willing to act on global warming. Check the Candidates list to find out who has signed and who hasn’t signed the Pledge.
Send an email to Ruth Edwards at ruth@kyotoplus.ca and tell her which riding you are covering. She will be able to tell you which candidates you need to ask.
Once you have all of the signed pledges in a riding, send them by FAX to Arthur Sandborn at 514-933-1017, or scan the pledge sheets and email them to: Arthur.sandborn@greenpeace.org
You can also send them by regular mail to:
Greenpeace
Attn: Arthur Sandborn,
454 Avenue Laurier Est,
Montreal, QC, H2J 1E7.
I asked Greenpeace how candidates who have actively declined the pledge are being differentiated from those who are still considering it. From Greenpeace:
"Climate Action Network Canada and the Sierra Club Canada sent a written
invitation by email to all of the candidates, so they should all be aware of
the ask. Volunteers in the ridings are also contacting their candidates to
encourage them to sign on. If we do not hear back from a candidate the name
remains in the "Awaiting response" category but a candidate who returns a
"no" response is coded as "opposes" KYOTOplus. In our media work, we will
present "opposes/no response" as a single category."