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Green Parties around the world share common values. Our policies are based on six fundamental principles. Discover them: Sustainability. Must be built together. Non-Violence. Let’s pacify our hearts. Social Justice. Needs us all. Respect for diversity. Because everyone matters. Ecological wisdom. Let’s learn together. Participatory Democracy.
- Must Be Built Together
Sustainability. We recognize the limited scope for the...
- Needs US All
Social Justice We assert that the key to social justice is...
- Because Everyone Matters
Respect for diversity We honour and value equally the...
- Let's Learn Together
Ecological wisdom We acknowledge that human beings are part...
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The Green Party of Canada is working to build a more...
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Founded in 1983, and inspired by the success of sister parties in New Zealand and Germany, the Green Party of Canada set out to replace the traditional left-versus-right political debate in favour of a new emphasis on protecting the environment and conserving natural resources. In 2002, the Green Party embraced the six fundamental principles of the...
As environmental activism shifted from being the focus of mainly interest groups to the central concern of a new political party, questions arose: Where did the party fit on the political spectrum? Did it embrace a completely new ideology? How could it move beyond a single issue, towards a comprehensive policy outlook spanning a wide range of issue...
The Green Party has run candidates in federal electionssince 1984. The party presented fewer than 100 candidates in each of its first four elections. In 2004, under Jim Harris’s leadership, it ran a full slate of candidates for the first time in all 308 federal ridings. The party has steadily improved its performance since that time. In 2004, it ga...
In the 2011 federal contest, the Greens’ vote total fell to 576, 221 (3.9 per cent). That disappointment was somewhat diminished, however, by Elizabeth May’s victory — winning a seat in the British Columbia riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands, and becoming the party’s first member of Parliament. Since then, May has been voted Parliamentarian of the Year...
The 2015 election was a disappointment for the Greens, who had hoped to achieve continued growth. Elizabeth Maywas the only Green candidate elected in the country, and the party received 3.5 per cent of the popular vote, slightly less than its 2011 result.
However, support for the Green Party rose in the lead-up to the federal election of October 2019. In May 2019, Paul Manly won a by-election in Nanaimo-Ladysmith on Vancouver Island, becoming the second MP elected under the Green Party banner. The same month, the Greens released Mission: Possible, their 20-step climate action plan. In August 2019, E...
The Green Party’s leadership convention was held online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, between 26 September and 3 October 2020. The number of party members eligible to vote — 34,680 — was almost 10 times the number of members that attended the last leadership election in 2006. Annamie Paul, a human rights lawyer from Toronto, was elected leader of ...
In the months leading to the 2021 federal election, the Green Party experienced severe internal infighting. Some members were dissatisfied with Annamie Paul’s more muted position on the escalating Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Criticism intensified when Paul failed to reign in an adviser who openly called for defeating Green MPs deemed to be anti-S...
There are also provincial Green parties in most of Canada, and some have made important progress in recent elections. The Green Party of British Columbia won its first seat in the Legislature in the province’s 2013 election. In the 2017 provincial election, the Greens elected three candidates to the BC legislature. Since then, they have supported t...
The Green Party faces a number of hurdles in its quest to play a greater role in Canadian politics. The party is generally ignored by the other parties in Parliament; broadcasters sometimes exclude it from the major leaders’ television debates, and the electoral system does not translate votes into seats proportionally. More than six per cent of vo...
The Green Party of Canada is working to build a more prosperous and sustainable future for all Canadians. Vote for a Canada that works, together.
Sustainability. We recognize the limited scope for the material expansion of human society within the biosphere, and the need to maintain biodiversity through the sustainable use of renewable resources and the responsible use of non-renewable resources.
Sep 26, 2020 · The eight-month Green Party leadership race has given its contestants a chance to thrash out new policy positions that could set the national agenda for years to come.
Sep 7, 2021 · The Green platform says the party can do this with a series of measures that will shut down the fossil fuel industry in Canada, including: ending the extraction of all fossil fuels in the...
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The Green Party of Canada (French: Parti vert du Canada) is a federal political party in Canada, founded in 1983 with a focus on green politics. The Green Party is currently the fifth largest party in the House of Commons by seat count.
