We won a major victory earlier this year when the federal government passed tough new anti-greenwash legislation, but now the oil lobby is fighting hard to weaken it.
You can join this fight.
The Competition Bureau is consulting the public on how it will apply the new rules. You can read Greenpeace’s full submission to the Bureau for all the juicy details. We hope you will contact the Bureau (find out how here) before September 27 and tell them:
- You support strong truth-in-advertising requirements for green claims by all companies, but especially big polluters like the oil and gas industry.
- Rather than letting big polluters set their definition of what it means to be carbon-neutral or net-zero, the Bureau should use science-based international standards, like the one developed by the United Nations’ High Level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities.
Truth-in-advertising is not popular with oil executives, who scrubbed their websites and social media feeds of questionable green claims following passage of the Act, but it is popular with regular people. In a survey conducted this week by Angus Reid Forum and commissioned by Greenpeace Canada, Canadians overwhelmingly supported the core of the new federal anti-greenwashing legislation (Bill C-59), with 93% supporting the statement “Companies should face penalties for making environmental claims that they can’t prove are true.”
To all the oil executives claiming they are being silenced, we say: all you have to do is Tell the Truth.
