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CANADA'S CLIMATE PIONEERS

Sophia Mathur is 14 years old, and already a notable activist! She became the first student outside of Europe to join Greta Thunberg ' s Fridays for Future movement, appearing on an Amnesty International climate activism panel. She was born in Sudbury, and continues to bring local impact, as the Sudbury city council declared a climate emergency around 5 months before Toronto did.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier has spent much of her life working with Indigenous peoples in Canada. She has worked to make climate change and how it effects Indigenous people a national priority. She argues in her memoir that climate change is fundamentally a human rights issue. Watt-Cloutier has also expressed how Inuit and Indigenous peoples are key to help guide us through the climate crisis.

Dianne Saxe is an Environmental Commissioner playing an important role advising and reporting on the state of energy conservation and greenhouse gas emissions in Ontario.

Dale Marshall is the National Program Manager at Environmental Defence Canada and Vice-Chair of Climate Action Network Canada. His written work explaining various environmental issues has appeared in the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, The Narwhal, and The Huffington Post.