Quotes from Elizabeth May

The only party that has better bragging rights than the Greens is the Bloc Quebecois.

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 real dynamic is that when Greens are in the debates, Conservatives don't do as well.

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 don't love being Leader of the Green Party. It is not really something I'd recommend to a good friend. It's not fun.

There's a lot I'd like to be able to talk about with relation to Stephen Harper, particularly why is he afraid to debate in English?

I prefer the Greens to remain an opposition party that's able to hold the government to account.

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

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.

The Lester B. Pearson era is what I hope to replicate.

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.

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

God, we don't have nearly enough skilled carpenters, electricians, plumbers for the work that needs to be done in taking every single building in Canada and making it carbon-zero, a net-neutral building, by improving insulation, modernizing furnaces, improving the geothermal possibilities, heat pumps.

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.

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

But if we keep doing politics the way we're doing politics, and we keep doing climate action the way we're doing climate action, we will not have a history that judges us because we, certainly as a civilization, won't be here.

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

Once you got a solar panel on a roof, energy is free. Once we convert our entire electricity grid to green and renewable energy, cost of living goes down.

We oppose any pipeline whose sole purpose is to export bitumen from Canada to make profits in other countries.

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.

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

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.

Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada's environment.

For all my life I have had a deep connection to the natural world.