A biography for Annamie Paulhasn’t been written yet.
“It was nothing I ever hid and when I was asked about my background, I of course mentioned I'm Jewish. It's an important part of who I am.”
“What I bring is hope to all the people who have not seen themselves represented in politics to this point, hope it's possible we can have a more inclusive style of politics.”
“How many times will we allow Justin Trudeau to get away with pushing strong, competent capable women out of politics when they are seeking to serve?”
“The Liberal Party of Canada has demonstrated that it is hell bent on winning their majority at almost any cost.”
“It is extremely hard to have your integrity questioned when you value it so much.”
“The Liberals are intellectually exhausted.”
“The difference between the Liberals and the Conservatives is that the Conservatives are being honest that what they're planning to do is not going to get us past 30 per cent greenhouse gas emissions reductions.”
“Most of the attacks, most of the online hate that I've received has really been targeted at my Jewish identity.”
“The climate emergency is and remains the existential crisis of our times and we cannot forget about it because it has not forgotten about us.”
“When I came back to Canada after my graduate studies, I founded the first organization in Canada focused on political under-representation and trying to change that, and to support a whole new generation of public policy leaders from marginalized groups.”
“I am willing to run anywhere that the Green Party and our membership thinks it makes sense for me to run.”
“I was very painfully honest in saying that there had been times that I thought about stepping down.”
“For-profit long-term care absolutely needs to go.”
“I hope people will continue to support me.”
“I'm going to be working as hard as I can to give a strong Green option to residents and to give them the option of some real representation.”
“We need to move towards a truly just and equitable society by... making sure that every Canadian - whether they're living in long-term care or they're working part-time or they're students or they're Black or they're Indigenous - whatever their circumstances, can live in dignity and security.”
“What people need to realize is that when I was elected and put in this role, I was breaking a glass ceiling. What I didn't realize at the time was that I was breaking a glass ceiling that was going to fall on my head and leave a lot of shards of glass that I was going to have to crawl over throughout my time as a leader.”
“I don't think anything replaces the face-to-face meetings and the personal connections that you get when you're in the same room or same place with people.”
“Canada is so far behind on issues related to systemic racism.”
“Anti-Semitism was a constant presence in the campaign after it became known I was Jewish.”