The oilsands will be phased out by 2030 or 2035.

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?

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

I try to be friends with everyone.

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.

Politicians in Canada should not put their religion on their sleeve.

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.

And of course the Green Party wants to remove carcinogens from our food, our cosmetics, our backyard pesticides.

The movement across Canada to fight toxic chemicals is a women's movement. It's a concern about health; it's very intimate.

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.