Climate Change & the Environment

Marine conservation platforms

Here's what the 2025 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

  • Invest $15M to modernise the location, retrieval, and responsible disposal of ghost gear

    "investing an additional $15M to modernize the location, retrieval, and responsible disposal of the ghost gear threatening marine mammals and birds;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16

  • Create an open data model to increase transparency of quota decisions

    "establishing an open data model to increase the transparency of quota decisions." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16

  • Ratify the High Seas Treaty as soon as possible
  • Support growth of marine resource sectors, and advocate for international protections

    "supporting growth of our marine resource sectors, while advocating for strong, evidence-based, international protections" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16

Conservative

  • Restore the seal harvest

    "Today, Clifford Small, Conservative candidate for Central Newfoundland, announced that Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Government will restore the seal harvest to protect harvesters’ jobs, and take back control of the seal and sea lion population that is destroying our fish stocks." — conservative.ca, retrieved 2025-04-17

Bloc

  • Exiger une hausse du financement fédéral pour contrer l’érosion des berges

NDP

  • Keep the ban on tankers carrying more than 12,500 metric tons of crude oil or persistent oil products from using ports in north-west BC

    "And we are committed to keeping a strong oil and gas emissions cap, as well as to keeping the North Coast tanker ban in place to protect our coastal ecosystems from possible oil spills." — ndp.ca, retrieved 2025-04-19

We don't have any Green policies on Marine conservation.

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