Across Canada and around the world, communities are reeling from unprecedented fires, floods, and extreme weather events. Meanwhile, the Big Oil giants fuelling this crisis are raking in record profits even as they slash jobs and foreclose on our collective future. In his recent federal budget, the self-proclaimed “climate leader” Mark Carney has made it  abundantly clear whose side he’s on. He has rolled out new fossil fuel subsidies, watered down anti-greenwashing legislation, and scrapped the oil and gas emissions cap to the delight of fossil fuel CEOs.

On Monday, November 17th, join Avi Lewis and renowned author, activist, and— yes—little brother-in-law Seth Klein for the Lewis for Leader campaign’s first-ever Solidarity Session. In this one-hour conversation on Tackling the Climate Emergency, Seth and Avi will dig into what real climate leadership would look like in this political moment, how we can leverage public ownership as a tool to tackle the climate crisis while making life more affordable for working people, and why we must transform the NDP into a political vehicle for our movements to make it happen.

More than just a conversation, the event is a call to action. Together, we’ll organize to confront austerity and backsliding on climate in this country, and build people power behind the common-sense socialist solutions we urgently need.

Seth Klein is the author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency (published by ECW press in 2020) and writes a regular column for Canada’s National Observer. He is an adjunct professor with Simon Fraser University’s Urban Studies program and serves on the Board of Directors of B.C Policy Solutions.

Live interpretation to French will be available.