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

We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

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.

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

I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it's that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.

I've always kind of hated films about climate change.

The United States had eight years of Barack Obama. He made it incredibly clear that he was a right-wing Democrat. He cited Ronald Reagan lovingly in every stump speech for the last six months of the presidential 2008 campaign. And he made it clear that he was going to be a business-friendly Democratic president, and that he was not going to rock the neoliberal boat. And he didn't.