Quotes from Annamie Paul

I'm going to be working as hard as I can to give a strong Green option to residents and to give them the option of some real representation.

Unfortunately, a platitude is not a plan. So I am encouraging people to turn towards the Green Party if they're looking for a real plan, because what we see is that the other parties, unfortunately, are intellectually exhausted.

The Liberals are intellectually exhausted.

Every single person who is a member of our party deserves to have certainty. They deserve to know that my attention and focus is where it belongs.

I just love traveling.

You have got to have social justice to have climate justice.

I am willing to run anywhere that the Green Party and our membership thinks it makes sense for me to run.

It was nothing I ever hid and when I was asked about my background, I of course mentioned I'm Jewish. It's an important part of who I am.

In the case of a Black woman like myself, the most classic trope of all is that we are angry or we are aggressive. It's very difficult to navigate that because in order to be a leader, and particularly a senior leader, you need to be able to speak with conviction to direct people.

I was very painfully honest in saying that there had been times that I thought about stepping down.

I have been subjected to what can only be described as an unrelenting onslaught of comments and commentary and trolling online.

It's good news that all the parties, well, with the exception of the People's Party, recognize that we're in a climate crisis. It's bad news that there are parties that still are not being upfront and honest with the people of Canada about what we need to do about it.

Even as the leader of the party, my first duty always is to the people who elected me, my first duty always is going to be to represent the people of this riding in Ottawa.

I'm very firmly of the belief that if we want different outcomes, then we're going to have to make some different choices.

My son was born between my first and year of graduate studies.

When I came back to Canada after my graduate studies, I founded the first organization in Canada focused on political under-representation and trying to change that, and to support a whole new generation of public policy leaders from marginalized groups.

A small group of councillors sought to force a vote of no-confidence in my leadership. They did so with no substantive consultation with the members they represent.

The anti-Semitism was not easy, and it still isn't. You never really get used to it. You're aware it's out there but you're never fully prepared for it.

If you have a diversity of views at the table, you're much more likely to avoid pitfalls.

For-profit long-term care absolutely needs to go.

Sometimes the most negative voices in the room are the loudest and it's easy for them to drown out the rest.