Disaster survivors bring pleas for climate change action to Parliament Hill

OTTAWA — Meghan Fandrich’s voice shakes as she recalls grabbing her five-year-old daughter and fleeing their home as flames descended on the village of Lytton, B.C., in 2021.

Darryl Tedjuk is quiet as he relates the reality that his hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk in Nunavut is slowly being washed away by the Beaufort Sea.

They are among a growing class of Canadians for whom climate change is not an abstract but a lived reality.

The two are in Ottawa today to plead with parliamentarians to take climate change more seriously and do whatever it takes to slow global warming.