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

I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.

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.

If we could get proportional representation and open up roles for smaller parties in coalition governments, we could start intentionally breaking down the cult of personality that is one of the most distorting things about our electoral system in Canada. We had a constellation of social actors behind the Leap Manifesto. And we created something bigger than ourselves.

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

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

I think people are losing that sense of security pretty fast, frankly.