Carol Dyck

Carol believes that the Green Party of Canada’s progressive platform offers the best opportunity for Canada to build a more resilient economy while simultaneously cutting our greenhouse gas emissions, creating a more caring society, and safeguarding our nation’s vast and beautiful natural spaces. She also ran in the 2019 Federal election as well as provincially in Ontario in 2018, 2022 and 2025.

Carol Dyck is a dedicated community leader who is actively involved with several non-profit organizations and committees. She served on the Board of Directors for the London Environmental Network for seven years, the Thames Talbot Land Trust (2017-2020), and the Magisterra Soloists, including as Chair (2021-2023). She was a Member-at-Large of the Environmental and Ecological Planning Advisory Committee of the City of London (2015-2020), and formerly sat on the Trees and Forests Advisory Committee. Not afraid to get her hands dirty, Carol has also volunteered for ReForest London, planting trees to expand the Forest City’s canopy, doing river clean-ups for Antler River Rally, and Butt Blitzes for A Greener Future.
 
Carol first obtained a BA in International Relations at the University of British Columbia, where she also studied French, Spanish and German. Later she moved to Monterey, California, where she completed a Masters of Arts in International Environmental Policy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. While there she gained an interest in law and moved to England, where she earned a Masters of Law (LLM) in Environmental Law from the University of Kent. Carol realized that she wanted to expand her knowledge of science so that she could better translate scientific findings to policy-makers. In 2013 Carol and her family moved to England, where she earned an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management from Oxford University. She believes that tackling environmental issues happens where science, law, economics and policy intercept, and uses her diverse educational background to do so. Carol is currently completing a PhD at Western University’s Faculty of Law specializing in international environmental law, with a focus on marine areas, especially the Arctic Ocean.

Carol is dismayed by the federal government’s lack of true commitment to address electoral reform. She strongly believes that a shift away from first-past-the-post to proportional representation would not only address voter apathy, but would help our ruling government to work more collaboratively to set and reach long-term goals. The world’s most environmentally and socially progressive nations possess more representative voting systems; Canada could and should move in this direction.

Carol, originally from Vancouver, and her husband have been together for over twenty years and have two daughters. She enjoys travelling and has been fortunate to live in twelve cities in six different countries. She has many cousins living in Prince George and enjoyed visiting her uncle’s farm there when she was a kid.