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Hundreds of protesters marched through downtown Montreal and the Centre-Sud on Saturday, chanting and blowing horns to make noise about the state of the environment after an electoral campaign that was all but silent on climate change.

“There is no Planet B,” they shouted, as they moved from one TV station to another in the hope of making the news.

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“System change — not climate change,” they wrote on placards.

“For the future of our children,” they said, with their toddlers and teenagers in tow.

The non-partisan protest was the fourth in as many weeks under the banner of “The Planet Goes to Parliament,” calling on provincial and federal governments across the country to make climate change a top priority.

Having spawned and supported seven other protests across the Quebec, from Cowansville to Saguenay, the organizers hope to expand across the country.

Recent elections in Ontario and Quebec, where Doug Ford and François Legault both campaigned for premier’s jobs with barely a mention of the environment, do not bode well, they said.