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“Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada”
2195 Armstrong Street
Sudbury, ON P3E 4W2
It’s Canada’s Time to Shine 🍁 Let’s Rise to the Moment
With the U.S. stepping back from climate leadership under Donald Trump, the world is looking elsewhere for hope. Canada now has a historic opportunity to lead. We are ready.
For 15 years, our volunteers have built political will one riding at a time. We are now active in nearly 120 ridings, powered by passionate and committed Canadians. Their efforts have driven over 2,500 high-impact lobbying meetings and helped shape real change.
But we cannot do this without you.
Our 2025 Mother’s Day to Father’s Day fundraiser was our most successful yet. Support will cover venue rentals, AV, speaker costs, travel costs for the conference team, food, swag, printing, and conference fee assistance for our national conference October 19-21 in Ottawa.
Every dollar counts. Your gift helps build the future we all need.
Scroll down to see our impact and meet the people behind the movement.
2025 Fundraiser: Mother’s Day to Father’s Day
Over Father’s Day weekend, another $550 in grassroots donations came in, making this our most successful grassroots fundraiser ever at $11,940. Donations are still coming in, even without reminders.
This was our first year without a matching donor. Every single dollar came directly from members like you.
💚 2023: $10,974
💚 2024: $11,501
💚 2025 (so far): $14,735 and counting
Our October conference will be our most critical national gathering since 2017. With our fundraising in a strong place, we can now focus our energy where it is needed most. Any new money raised at the point will go towards helping volunteers cover travel.
Thank you for helping take that weight off our shoulders and powering this movement forward 💚
Why donate today?
Canada’s pollution pricing is working and is reducing global heating gases. As the climate crisis deepens, and it will, the government can raise the price on pollution. That’s powerful—and it’s exactly why Big Oil, and their political enablers are playing very dirty with misinformation. We know polluter’s must pay and we are undaunted!
Polluters Must Pay
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has repeatedly warned that failing to price pollution from fossil fuels risks both missing climate targets and triggering debt crises that could jeopardize social programs like healthcare leading to privatization and unraveling our publicly-funded healthcare system.
We lobby for the greater good
Citizens’ Climate Lobby volunteers are the best lobbyists money can’t buy. With just 0.5 paid staff, we’re building political will for smart, effective climate policies—from carbon pricing to climate-aligned finance. Our volunteers give their time and they are not guessing on the actions they need to take.
CCL Canada Uses a Proven Theory of Change
We use a proven theory of change. How do we know it works? We were the group that lobbied over 1200 times for your Canada Carbon Rebate quarterly cheques between September 2010 and December 2020.
On October 16, 2018, Senator Grant Mitchell said to us, “You are one of the most successful lobbying groups I have worked with because you are about to get what you lobbied for.”
Then on Tuesday, October 23, 2018, Canada announced it was going to enact an incrementally rising carbon price with rebates. It needed some improvements, so we continued to lobby our parliamentarians.
WE DID IT AGAIN! On Friday, December 11, 2020, improvements to Canada’s carbon pricing policy were announced. We were ecstatic when we read about the improvements they made. The government of Canada pretty much cut and pasted what we had lobbied our MPs for between 2018-2020.
We did it again and again. In October 2023 we asked the government to change the name of the rebate to citizens and require banks to clearly label the rebate in bank statements and they did that too.
We are undaunted
Yes, the carbon rebate is gone. Let’s call it what it is: a win based on deception. Over one million dollars was spent on Meta platforms to mislead the public about the consumer carbon price—paid for by big oil, oligarchs and politicians determined to protect the status quo. That’s not democracy. That’s rigging the game.
It’s like flipping the Monopoly board, stealing cash and property, and calling it a win. But we know better. Real success is earned—with facts, fairness, and integrity.
And here’s the truth: we were never just fighting for a rebate cheque. We’re fighting for a liveable world. For future generations. For justice.
This loss won’t stop us—it fuels us. Because we are undaunted. We’ve got the people, the resolve, and the long view. And together, we’ll keep showing up, building political will one riding at a time, and turning setbacks into stepping stones.
The future is still ours to shape.
Lobbying is not tax-deductable
Donations to us are not tax-deductible because we lobby, we train people to lobby, and we run conferences and lobbying days. All of these activities are non-charitable activities.
How to donate
You can make out your cheque to “Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada” and mail it to:
Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada
2195 Armstrong Street
Sudbury, ON P3E 4W2
Or you can donate directly to our Canadian account at PayPal:
About CCL Canada
We have been accumulating institutional wisdom since 2010. We are laser-focused on building the political will for policies that will shift trillions of dollars globally toward a thriving and equitable planet while not burdening the taxpayer.
We empower individuals so that they experience significant growth in their own political and personal power, as well as discover and celebrate their capacity to make a significant difference in this world. Our volunteers break down partisan and ideological barriers by reaching out to key stakeholders to build positive, effective working relationships.
Our work is not done. Pricing greenhouse gas pollution is under attack. Also, like during COVID, there are populist movements that ignore science at the peril of humanity. Consequently, we are not on track for the 1.5 C Paris Agreement target nor the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. But the good news is we can achieve these goals while not burdening the taxpayer. All we need now is to be brave and build political will.
We have a proven theory of change. And we are going to prevail.
Democracy requires a healthy and polite engagement between citizens and politicians. At the very core of our work at Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada are relationships. Thank you for learning more about us.
Please Note:
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Donations made to CCL USA from Canada remain with CCL USA.
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All expenditures are pre-approved by our board.
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All withdrawals must be board-approved.
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Two authorized individuals must co-sign to access funds from our national account.
Immense Gratitude:
We are deeply grateful to our donors. Your generosity has made possible more than two dozen national conferences and lobby days in Ottawa (including virtual events during COVID), five Ontario regional conferences, and one Manitoba conference since 2011.
Your unconditional support and trust have powered a movement. To our knowledge, no other group has consistently returned to Ottawa to help Canadians bring evidence-based, cost-effective climate policy ideas directly to their parliamentarians.
Thank you for believing in this work.
Relationships are at the core of our work.
With Indigenous artist Will Morin and seven politicians representing all political parties we built a giant dreamcatcher on Parliament Hill - May 2022
With Indigenous artist Will Morin and seven politicians respresenting all political parties we built a giant dreamcatcher on Parliament Hill - May 2022
With Indigenous artist Will Morin and seven politicians respresenting all political parties we built a giant dreamcatcher on Parliament Hill - May 2022
We have been meeting with Senator Galvez since November 2017!
In 2017, we sewed capes for our superhero guest speakers that spoke at our conference: Cat Abeu, Matthew Chapman and Joe Gunn. This was so much fun.
Linn and Alyssa giving opening comments at our November 2016 national conference
Sophia Mathur making a pink promise with the Honourable Catherine McKenna to work together to protect the Earth's fragile climate system. Summer of 2017.
We were ton Parliament Hill in September 2011 when seven of our members were arrested in a peaceful protest against tarsands expansion.
Linn with MP Eglinski. You should have been there. It was beautiful.
With MP Linda Duncan - a fierce defender of the climate in our Parliament. We are grateful for her service to Edmonton and Canada
Chery (Toronto) and Ian (Toronto) at the lobby day reception in Washington DC in June 2012
MP Marc Serre and Cathy Orlando
