Media releases

“The passage of a policy endorsing Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) at the Green Party of Canada convention in Ottawa this past weekend represents a significant step away from the values that define the BC Green Party.

“This is not a policy that I nor the B.C. Green Party support. I think the Green Party of Canada needs to take a careful look at their policy process and ask themselves how a policy that goes against Green Party values could have been allowed on the floor of a convention.

Victoria B.C. - The Rideshare Enabling Act was introduced today in the BC Legislature by Andrew Weaver, Leader of the B.C. Green Party and MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head.

VICTORIA, B.C. –  Dr. Andrew Weaver, Leader of the B.C. Green Party and MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head, will be tabling legislation later today intended to start a public dialogue about the rules we need to make ridesharing a reality for British Columbia.

Victoria B.C. -  “The TPP, especially the investor-state dispute settlement clauses, poses a serious threat to the sovereignty of our province. It places the interests of multinational corporations above the interests of British Columbians,” says Andrew Weaver, Leader of the B.C. Green Party and MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head.

Victoria B.C. - For the past 15 years, the BC government has been unable to provide Francophone children in Vancouver with the quality of education they are constitutionally entitled to. Today Andrew Weaver, Leader of the B.C. Green Party and MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head, questioned the Minister of Education about why that is and when he will relocate the children to a facility that meets their Section 23 rights.