The reality of the Green party is that we are a party committed to bringing forward big ideas, new ideas and demonstrating by our conduct in parliament and through the election that we really want to work for Canadians, work across party lines, work across jurisdictions.

I want a group of Green MPs who will demonstrate to Canadians that it's possible to be respectful, ethical, hard working and actually stick to principle.

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.

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

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.

If one group of people say a woman has a right to choose, I get queasy because I'm against abortion. I don't think a woman has a frivolous right to choose. What I don't want is a desperate woman to die in an illegal abortion.

ncrementalism is out, and doing deals with people just for power, when our children's futures at stake is not something I will ever do.

I can work with anyone.

You have to look at what the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous people says which is free and prior informed consent. Now, if you say ‘we're going to build a pipeline, what does it take for us as the colonial power of Canada to make you agree?' That's not free, prior and informed consent, that's coercion.

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.

My constituency is my top priority.

I never heckle. I never swear.

Anyone can have a bad night and anyone can have a bad attempt at comedy.

It doesn't make sense to have a bitumen export economy.

For as long as we're using fossil fuels at all, globally, Canadians should be using Canadian sources.

When we talk about product by pipeline or product by rail we need to be highly specific about what product we are shipping and under what terms and for what purpose. Solid bitumen by rail is safe as houses, but as again crude by rail poses different risk.

First and foremost we are Earthlings.

I'm a sort of in the moment, good on my feet kind of person.

One of the things I hate about politicians, I shouldn't say I hate things, but one of the things I hate about politics is people who repeat the same talking point over and over and over again.

I'm fair-minded, maybe. Maybe I bend over backward to give people too much benefit of the doubt. And I'll give credit where credit is due.

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

I wanted to repeat we cannot vote confidence at any point on a confidence motion in a government that fails to have a climate target that's ground in science and consistent with what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we must do.

To improve humanity's chances of survival, it is critical that Canada assume a leadership role, first ramping up our own ambition and then pushing for more ambition overall in global negotiations.

It's not as if being leader of the Green party is something that I do because I love being leader of the Green party. I love the Green party and this is a service.

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.

I would urge Rachel Notley to be more like Peter Lougheed. Lougheed had a sensible plan for the oil sands, which involved ancillary infrastructure like upgraders and refineries.

The reality is that Rachel Notley's adherence to pipelines and exporting raw bitumen doesn't make sense for Alberta's economy and it doesn't make sense for Canada.

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 wouldn't want anyone to think I was less than respectful for the people with whom I work.

My funny speech wasn't funny. That's not the first time a politician has done that.

I apologize that I made an attempt to be funny and edgy… and it didn't work.

Sovereigntism and separatism they are… it may seem like it's splitting hairs, but a lot of Quebecers are sovereignists - they respect the sovereignty of Quebec. They're not interested in separating.

I think the majority of politicians keep their positions for too long.

We were the first party to call for equal marriage.

I'm not interested in a balance of power in order to have power for the Green party. What I'm interested in is the balance of responsibility.