The following article appeared in the June 8th edition of the Hill Times, in commemoration of World Oceans Day.
Saving our Dying Oceans
By Dr. Keith Martin, MP
Our oceans are dying, and without life in our oceans, life on land will perish. The threats to our marine environment, our global life support system, come` from many sources, but all have one common cause: human activity.
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April 22nd 2009
If you sit in an MP’s office for a day, you can’t help but be struck by the massive volume of bills, reports and sundry other documents that enter the “inbox”. The vast majority of these 
were never asked for and will never be read, as they are readily available online, and wind up in the recycling box. This is an outright waste of money and trees and represents an utterly unnecessary cost to the environment. It continues to occur simply out of neglect. So on Earth Day, why doesn’t Parliament take the lead and introduce a process to reduce the unnecessary printing of government documents? (more…)
