By Canadian Press

Younger voters mobilizing to make federal election about climate change

Jul 17, 2019 | 12:45 PM

OTTAWA — Several hundred Canadian millennials plan to rally in at least 30 cities across the country today, demanding a federal leaders’ debate on climate change.

Emma Jackson, a field organizer with the group Our Time, says the science is clear that humanity only has 11 years to get a grip on greenhouse-gas emissions before global warming becomes catastrophic and irreversible.

Our Time is working to mobilize voters under age 35 to demand solid climate-change plans from all parties.

Climate change has skyrocketed to the top of many lists of issues voters care about the most — particularly younger voters.

Most of today’s rallies pushing for a leaders’ debate on climate change will be outside CBC offices and studios.

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Jackson says the federal debate commission organizing leaders’ debates this year told them it’s up to broadcasters to decide what the topics will be.

The Canadian Press