Canada is burning. What can be done about it? (with On2Ottawa)

This week on the show, rabble labour reporter Gabriela Calguay-Casuga sits down with Laura Sullivan, a spokesperson from On2Ottawa.

"We are ordinary Canadians stepping into nonviolent civil disobedience to get urgent government action on the climate crisis, starting with the formation of a permanent, professional national firefighting agency sized to meet the enormity of the crisis.

The climate crisis is real and it is now. We face the consequences daily. Canadians are dealing with fire, flood and drought because our governments have been failing us for decades. Until we zero our emissions it will keep getting worse." – https://on2ottawa.ca/

On2Ottawa is calling on the government to implement a National Firefighting Agency that trains and employs 50 000 firefighters, and legally binding citizen's assemblies to address the climate crisis. The campaign is in the midst of its first action phase, disrupting traffic to call for action on these demands.

Sullivan has been with On2Ottawa since its creation early this year. She's been arrested twice, for painting Woolly the Mammoth, a statue in the Royal BC Museum, and painting the iconic "Toronto" sign in Nathan Phillips Square to draw attention to the On2Ottawa campaign.

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