A biography for Elizabeth Mayhasn’t been written yet.
“I was twelve. You were girls, and therefore an entirely different species.”
“I'm a sort of in the moment, good on my feet kind of person.”
“It's not a big deal for me to be leader of the Green Party. It is a big deal for me to represent the voters of Saanich-Gulf Islands.”
“Women care about a wide range of issues - climate change, social justice. What the Green Party tries to do is apply gender analysis to a whole lot of questions that people might not think of as women's issues. For instance, women in developing countries are the most vulnerable to climate crisis.”
“There's a lot of propaganda that contaminates a discussion around what we should do about pipelines, how our economy may or may not be dependent on exports of raw bitumen.”
“Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada's environment.”
“I was known as an activist, described by CBC's 'The Fifth Estate' as 'the 23-year-old waitress who stopped the pulp company dead in its tracks.' Without knowing it was even possible, my activism helped me gain admission to Dalhousie University law school.”
“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.”
“I apologize that I made an attempt to be funny and edgy... and it didn't work.”
“I think it's quite unlikely that I'll be the leader of the Green party going into a future election if it's on anything like a four-year timing.”
“It doesn't make sense to have a bitumen export economy.”
“The oilsands will be phased out by 2030 or 2035.”
“I've been a feminist all my life, or at least as long as I've been conscious of being a woman.”
“I think the words 'vote strategically' translates in the human brain to: 'Oh I can't vote for what I want.' And that's discouraging.”
“I would love to focus on writing books that were not just about issues.”
“Once you got a solar panel on a roof, energy is free. Once we convert our entire electricity grid to green and renewable energy, cost of living goes down.”
“We have an existential crisis, which is the climate crisis. Canada is one of the laggards in the industrialized world. Our record is terrible.”
“Sovereigntism and separatism they are... it may seem like it's splitting hairs, but a lot of Quebecers are sovereignists - they respect the sovereignty of Quebec. They're not interested in separating.”
“I'm fair-minded, maybe. Maybe I bend over backward to give people too much benefit of the doubt. And I'll give credit where credit is due.”
“We've certainly always been a feminist party, with strong feminist principles.”