Climate Change & the Environment

Pollution platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.
We don't have any Liberal policies on Pollution.

Conservative

  • End the ban on single-use plastics

    "Scrap the Liberal plastics ban, including the ban on straws, grocery bags, food containers, cutlery, and other single-use plastics, letting consumers and businesses choose what works for them." — Change, retrieved 2025-04-23

  • End the dumping of raw sewage into Canada's waterways

Bloc

  • Pousser le gouvernement à interdire dès maintenant toutes les utilisations non essentielles des PFAS dans les produits de consommation et les usages industriels
  • Convaincre le Canada de signer un traité mondial contraignant sur le plastique

    Le Bloc Québécois convaincra le Canada de signer un traité mondial

    contraignant sur le plastique, en plus d’exiger la fin de

    l’exportation de déchets plastiques et la réduction rapide,

    jusqu’à l’abolition, des plastiques à usage unique.

NDP

  • Pass an Environmental Bill of Rights and set up an Office of Environmental Justice to address disproportionate impacts of pollution and loss of biodiversity on Indigenous, Black, and racialised communities

    "We will pass an Environmental Bill of Rights and establish an Office of Environmental Justice to address the disproportionate impacts of pollution and loss of biodiversity on Indigenous, Black and racialized communities, as well as youth and future generations." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

  • Ban the sale of products containing unnecessary plastic microparticles by 2030
  • Reduce PFAs and other "forever chemicals" in plastic products by 90% in 2035

    "We will protect the health and safety of Canadians by banning the sale of all products containing unnecessary plastic microparticles by 2030 and reduce toxic chemicals such as PFAs and other “forever chemicals” in plastic products by 90% in 2035." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

Green

  • Support a global tax on pollution from aviation and shipping

    "Support a global tax on pollution from aviation and shipping, ensuring major international polluters pay their fair share. Work with global partners, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to develop a fair and effective system." — Change: Vote For It, retrieved 2025-04-25

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