{"id":21817,"date":"2010-03-04T14:03:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=21817"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:31:37","slug":"green-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/04\/green-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Politician to discuss hopes for a green, sovereign Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/03\/mckay_5099-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/03\/mckay_5099-web-240x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Scott McKay of the Parti Quebecois\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A former leader of the Green Party of Quebec, Scott McKay visits Bates College to discuss globalization, national distinctiveness, sovereignty and the environment at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, March 18, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).<\/p>\n<p>Titled <em>Environmentalism and Sovereignty for Quebec: Perspectives from the Parti Quebecois<\/em>, McKay&#8217;s talk is sponsored by the Sociology Department and the Mellon Foundation Faculty Innovation Fund. For more information, please call 207-786-8296.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>McKay led the province&#8217;s Green Party from 2006 through 2008. He is now a member of Quebec&#8217;s National Assembly for the Parti Quebecois. His party has a special vision for the place of Quebec in Canada and the world. In favor of autonomy or outright independence from Canada, the PQ is for a progressive, environmentally conscious and culturally distinctive Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>With 30 years&#8217; experience working for environmental causes in Canada, McKay has contributed greatly to the PQ&#8217;s visions and hopes for a green, sovereign Quebec.<\/p>\n<p><em>(This\u00a0 lecture will be recorded at the request of Maine Public Broadcasting&#8217;s &#8220;Speaking in Maine&#8221; series for possible broadcast at a later date.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former leader of the Green Party of Quebec, Scott McKay visits Bates College to discuss globalization, national distinctiveness, sovereignty and the environment at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, March 18, in the Keck Classroom (G52), Pettengill Hall, 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1946],"class_list":["post-21817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","tag-canada-north-america-5-bates-around-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88115,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817\/revisions\/88115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}