I think Canada deserves a forthrightly left electoral alternative. I don't see the advantage for our democracy in having a number of parties crowded in the centre. The Liberals are experts at co-opting left language and framings during campaigns, and historically, we know they don't govern like that.

The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.

If you spend a lot of time with activists, as I have, they're just ordinary people who instead of Netflix are getting together in church basements and making posters or making phone calls doing organizing work. It really is about finding a community of other people.

I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write.

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.

If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then you can't live traditionally. Then your treaty is being violated. Obviously there are degrees of choice in terms of that decision to fight.