Elizabeth May

There's a lot of propaganda that contaminates a discussion around what we should do about pipelines, how our economy may or may not be dependent on exports of raw bitumen. ”

I think it's quite unlikely that I'll be the leader of the Green party going into a future election if it's on anything like a four-year timing. ”

If you're serious about climate targets, you don't build and expand the oil sands and move from coal-fired electricity to inefficient fracked gas. ”

I believed Justin Trudeau in 2015. I thought he would be a climate leader. I was wrong. ”

We cannot ever accept a government that thinks they can get away with tiny targets on climate which they then don't achieve. ”

We have an existential crisis, which is the climate crisis. Canada is one of the laggards in the industrialized world. Our record is terrible. ”

The only thing we're interested in as Greens is making sure that we are protecting Canada from an imminent threat and that imminent threat is the climate crisis. ”

I was part of Environment Canada's work to stop acid rain, create national parks, clean up the Great Lakes, develop new environmental legislation and negotiate the treaty that saved the ozone layer. ”

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. ”

It's very clear the Conservative party does not want to move to real climate action. ”