I'm a sort of in the moment, good on my feet kind of person.

First and foremost we are Earthlings.

When we talk about product by pipeline or product by rail we need to be highly specific about what product we are shipping and under what terms and for what purpose. Solid bitumen by rail is safe as houses, but as again crude by rail poses different risk.

For as long as we're using fossil fuels at all, globally, Canadians should be using Canadian sources.

It doesn't make sense to have a bitumen export economy.

Anyone can have a bad night and anyone can have a bad attempt at comedy.

I never heckle. I never swear.

My constituency is my top priority.

The safest way to ship bitumen is by rail. Now, there are other things that you get doing it that way. There's probably more greenhouse gases in shipping it by rail. I think certainly there are.

The National Energy Board process was completely flawed. It didn't allow interveners to do cross-examination, and they said we could do paper questions.

You have to look at what the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous people says which is free and prior informed consent. Now, if you say ‘we're going to build a pipeline, what does it take for us as the colonial power of Canada to make you agree?' That's not free, prior and informed consent, that's coercion.

I can work with anyone.

ncrementalism is out, and doing deals with people just for power, when our children's futures at stake is not something I will ever do.

If one group of people say a woman has a right to choose, I get queasy because I'm against abortion. I don't think a woman has a frivolous right to choose. What I don't want is a desperate woman to die in an illegal abortion.

I don't think that anyone is for abortion in the sense that you hope people are going to have abortions. You hope in an ideal world that every pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy.

I've been a feminist all my life, or at least as long as I've been conscious of being a woman.

The oilsands will be phased out by 2030 or 2035.

The process of forming government in a minority is one where you talk to everyone and see: What do you have in common? And is there enough commonality?

I try to be friends with everyone.

Within the Green Party, we have candidates from every faith and religion and a lot who don't believe there is a God and wonder why anyone would be so foolish as to think so. And everyone is respected and welcome.

Politicians in Canada should not put their religion on their sleeve.

A woman has a right to a safe, legal abortion. I've never wavered in that position since I was, like, eight years old and realized what was going on when I heard my mother arguing with people about the issue.

And of course the Green Party wants to remove carcinogens from our food, our cosmetics, our backyard pesticides.

The movement across Canada to fight toxic chemicals is a women's movement. It's a concern about health; it's very intimate.