It's very clear the Conservative party does not want to move to real climate action.
One thing is that you won't get climate action without equity, and Greens around the world have always understood this. This has been the dividing point between the green party of France and Emmanuel Macron: You can't get climate policy without equity.
The most important thing is guaranteed livable income, which will take a while to bring in because it means all the provinces have to participate.
I really think a minority Parliament delivers better democracy in Canada when parties are prepared to cooperate.
The Lester B. Pearson era is what I hope to replicate.
We've certainly always been a feminist party, with strong feminist principles.
Women care about a wide range of issues - climate change, social justice. What the Green Party tries to do is apply gender analysis to a whole lot of questions that people might not think of as women's issues. For instance, women in developing countries are the most vulnerable to climate crisis.
The movement across Canada to fight toxic chemicals is a women's movement. It's a concern about health; it's very intimate.
And of course the Green Party wants to remove carcinogens from our food, our cosmetics, our backyard pesticides.
A woman has a right to a safe, legal abortion. I've never wavered in that position since I was, like, eight years old and realized what was going on when I heard my mother arguing with people about the issue.
Within the Green Party, we have candidates from every faith and religion and a lot who don't believe there is a God and wonder why anyone would be so foolish as to think so. And everyone is respected and welcome.
I try to be friends with everyone.
The process of forming government in a minority is one where you talk to everyone and see: What do you have in common? And is there enough commonality?
The oilsands will be phased out by 2030 or 2035.
I've been a feminist all my life, or at least as long as I've been conscious of being a woman.
I don't think that anyone is for abortion in the sense that you hope people are going to have abortions. You hope in an ideal world that every pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.
I can work with anyone.
The National Energy Board process was completely flawed. It didn't allow interveners to do cross-examination, and they said we could do paper questions.
The safest way to ship bitumen is by rail. Now, there are other things that you get doing it that way. There's probably more greenhouse gases in shipping it by rail. I think certainly there are.
I prefer the Greens to remain an opposition party that's able to hold the government to account.
