It’s Getting Hot In Here

Saturday night brought snow flurries amounting to over 20 cm by Sunday morning, stalling the regular duties of the Easter Bunny in his east-coast route.

The head bunny is on strike because of unworkable conditions, claiming climate change has made its work close to impossible. Bunny says it will not return to egg hiding in Canada until it sees more effort from both the government and Canadians to help tackle climate change.

“This really is a climate crisis,” said Bunny early Sunday morning. “Climate change is making the weather up here in Canada more and more unpredictable.”

“It’s clear we need to act on solutions, and that starts with reaching the Kyoto Protocol – and that means all of us – kids walking to school, parents carpooling, conserving energy, and major reductions of greenhouse gas emissions by big industry.”

Bunny agrees with world scientists that we need to work towards a 30 % reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (below 1990 levels) by the year 2020, and an 80 % reduction by 2050. Bunny stresses that it will stay on strike until it sees the federal government stepping up with a cleaned-up Clean Air Act.

“I’m really sorry that it had to come to this,” said Bunny. “These unpredictable and intensifying weather conditions make hiding the eggs difficult. Where is the grass? Where are the spring birds? We can clearly see climate change happening, but we don’t see solutions being enforced by government. I’ll be on strike until I see that shift.”

Despite Bunny’s frustration and the difficult conditions, it completed its Atlantic journey just in time for Easter morning. From here on out, Bunny pledges to join Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer in being advocate for environmental and climate change solutions in a campaign called Holidays On Trial (HOT).