Climate activist Greta Thunberg announces plans to visit Alberta
Sara Austin, a Calgary child advocate who helped create the United Nations protocol that Thunberg used to file her complaint, said she hopes Thunberg’s visit urges Albertans to consider issues impacting youth in light of the upcoming federal election.
“The perspectives that I hear from most Canadian youth I speak to are these issues should be non-partisan. The health and well-being of our children should be something we can all support and all get behind and set aside our partisan politics and really take action for the sake of our young people,” said Austin.
“Kids represent a quarter of our population and 100 per cent of our future, so it’s really important that we listen to them.”