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

Catastrophic damage from climate-driven extreme weather is now an annual reality. The cost of not dealing with it will be much greater than if we try to pre-empt some of those disaster cleanups by actually investing in the shift now.

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

What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all of the predictions are coming true even faster than the scientists thought. We have the inequality crisis, where the Panama Papers are a great reminder that the one per cent have actually created their own economy. We still have the crisis of child poverty, which has never been dealt with despite decades of concerned words from politicians.

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

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

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.