Today, supporters of Last Generation Canada disrupted travelers at Montreal’s Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau International  Airport in support of their demand that the Canadian government sign a  legally binding treaty to stop extracting and burning oil, gas and coal  by 2030, as well as supporting and financing other countries to make a  fast, fair and just transition.

Last  Generation Canada is also demanding that the government create a  permanent national firefighting agency that employs 50,000 full-time  firefighters and a citizens’ assembly with legally binding power to  decide how to tackle the climate and ecological crisis.

The actions are part of Oil Kills, an international uprising in support of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. Actions have already taken place today in Germany, the UK, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, Austria and Finland.

Starting  at around 10am ET, six supporters of Last Generation Canada blocked the  entrance to the airport's departures area, with three supporters gluing  their hands to the road. The supporters carried banners saying “Oil  Kills” and “Sign the Treaty.” As of approximately 11:30am ET, three  supporters were still blocking access, with their hands glued to the  road.

Last  Generation Canada uses non-destructive, non-violent civil disobedience  tactics. As a result, no passengers or airport property were put at risk  during the action.

When asked what compelled her to take action, Kim Bradshaw, age 60, from Milton, ON, had this to say:

“Canada’s  democracy is broken. It is manipulated by corporate interests at every  level, especially by the banks and oil industry. Peaceful direct action  IS democracy in action. All avenues of reform have been tried and have  failed. If reform worked, we’d not be passing through the 1.5 degree  target in 2024, we’d not be losing entire communities and 1000s of  hectares in wildfires every summer, and we wouldn’t be licensing or  financing more oil exploration! Our leaders are failing to protect us.  Until they take real action to halt CO2 emissions, we will do what we  have to, to make them.”

The  action comes as hundreds of wildfires threaten communities in British  Columbia and Alberta, including Jasper National Park, currently under an  evacuation order. It also follows major flooding last week in Toronto,  which caused widespread disruption. Experts say continuing to pump  fossil fuels into the atmosphere ensures extreme weather events like  these will increase in severity and frequency.

It’s  clear – governments and fossil fuel companies are waging war on  humanity. Continuing to extract and burn oil, gas and coal will kill  millions of innocent people and destroy whole nations. We have to stop  them. Join the international uprising taking nonviolent collective  action to defend humanity. We refuse to die for fossil fuels and we  refuse to stand by while millions are murdered. Our governments must  sign a Fossil Fuel Treaty. We ask everyone to join us in the resistance.  We have a plan. Are you in? Sign up for action/ Donate link here.