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Climate Change and Climate Justice

real change: Last month, people voted for change at the ballot box, and they are continuing to vote with their feet, according to Rabble. Trudeau was elected on the slogan of "real change," and the climate justice movement wants to make that rhetoric a reality. In Ottawa, 25,000 people from across Canada came together on unceded Algonquin territory to say -- and to spell in massive numbers -- that climate solutions and climate justice is 100 per cent possible. People chanted, "Real change not climate change." This means stopping Canada fastest growing source of carbon emissions: the tar sands. While governments have given billions to the banks and corporations responsible for the economic crisis, and billions more to the oil and gas companies responsible for the climate crisis, there a growing demand for the climate jobs that can address both crises. Following the climate welcome sit-in outside Trudeau residence at the start of the month, yesterday demonstration continued to remind the new Prime Minister of the need to freeze tar sands development. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.