Rachel Notley takes climate change strategy to Alberta schools
CBC News | Posted: November 25, 2015 6:58 PM | Last Updated: November 25, 2015
'I call you leaders because you recognized a problem — climate change — and you did something about it'
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley took her climate change message to high school students across the province Wednesday.
"This is really an issue about taking hard decisions now in order to bring about significant benefit in the future," she told students packed into the gymnasium at Queen Elizabeth High School in Edmonton.
Her speech was also carried live at schools in Edson, St. Albert, Calgary and High Prairie.
Notley thanked the Alberta students who participated in creating the Canadian Youth White Paper on Climate Change.
"You have my thanks for an impeccably researched, logically reasoned and clearly presented position on climate change," she said.
"I call you leaders because you recognized a problem — climate change — and you did something about it. And that is what leaders do.
"Many of you invested lunch hours, weekends and after-school time to talk with students right across the country and the planet, and you collaborated on one the most extensive climate change documents ever written by young people."
Three students from Edmonton were to present the document at the upcoming international climate change meetings in Paris, or COP21. However, the school district nixed the plan following the recent terror attacks in that city.
Notley received a standing ovation at the school when she touted the Alberta government's recent climate change strategy.