Everyone has a role to play
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Parents and caregivers: Ask your school board and transportation consortium what their plan is for electric buses, and sign the petition.
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Student: Start a campaign at your school with Lead The Charge, our toolkit for high school students (Stay tuned for toolkit launch).
- School boards and transportation consortia: Learn what other Ontario boards are doing, and get in touch to explore pilots and funding.
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Bus operators, health professionals, and industry: Add your voice to our sector statements for bus operators, healthcare, and manufacturing. Tell the Province it’s time to go electric.
Sign our petition
You can also sign our petition calling on Ottawa and Ontario to work together and act decisively to go electric for all city school buses.
Sign the Petition
Write to your Councillor and MPP
Write to your City Councillor, MPP, using our one-click template here.
Write to your MPP
You can also arrange to speak to your councillor in person so that you know that you are serious about the health and climate impacts of diesel exhaust.
Make a delegation to your School Board
For parents and students who want to make a delegation to your School Board, here is a template delegation which you can use as your starting point!
School Board Delegation
Together, we can make it clear to our elected officials that our diesel buses must be replaced when they reach end of life, for the sake of our children's health, and for the sake of our planet.