A look at the contenders in the running for the Green Party leadership

The Inexperienced Social gathering of Canada formally opened the candidate software course of for its management race on June 28, and an inventory by the Toronto Star named quite a few potential contenders, together with some with anti-Israel views amongst different left-wing beliefs. 

The Star’s record contains the six following individuals:

Dalila Elhak

Elhak was the Inexperienced get together candidate within the Quebec driving of Beauport—Limoilou and declared her intention to run to exchange Annamie Paul, who she referred to as “a shame” of a pacesetter, again in September 2021. 

She has posted a number of anti-Israel tweets, together with one through which she referred to as Israel an “apartheid” regime, a typical anti-Semitic trope.

Elhak advised True North “my positions are unchangeable and replicate my non-negotiable values that are against violence and in favour of the institution of a long-lasting peace between the totally different events.” 

She additionally called for Canada-wide masks mandates again in 2020.

Sarah Gabrielle Baron

Baron, who ran as an impartial towards Erin O’Toole within the 2021 federal election, is described by the Star as “an avowed campaigner towards nuclear vitality.” Her Twitter timeline comprises a number of posts disavowing the clear vitality supply answerable for 54% of her personal province of Ontario’s vitality.

She additionally stated that the Freedom Convoy motion that was demanding an finish to discriminatory vaccine mandates could also be “Russian-sponsored”.

Moreover, Baron beforehand said she needed to see a 60% discount to Canada’s carbon footprint within the span of simply eight and a half years.

Naomi Hunter

Hunter is at present the chief of the Saskatchewan Inexperienced Social gathering, however is seen as a possible candidate to guide the federal get together. 

Throughout the pandemic, Hunter shared requires powerful restrictions in Saskatchewan and re-tweeted reward for New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern after she postponed her wedding ceremony amid the introduction of recent Covid-19 restrictions. 

In June 2021, Hunter shared a Tweet that stated “Cancelling Canada Day is step one in starting to construct a greater Canada”, and referred to as on municipalities to cancel their Canada Day celebrations. 

“We proceed to see quite a few findings of human stays at residential college websites. I proceed to really feel that we as a rustic have to do extra to indicate solidarity with the households and communities of residential college survivors and those that didn’t survive,” Hunter advised True North.

Najib Jutt

Jutt, an Alberta-based CBC political commentator and provincial Inexperienced Social gathering strategist, was outspoken final yr amid the announcement of unmarked graves on the websites of former Indian residential faculties.

He shared tweets that condoned acts of vandalism towards Catholic and Christian communities.

True North requested Jutt if he would denounce the assaults on Christian and Catholic communities that Canada witnessed final yr, however he didn’t reply.

Jutt can also be a vocal opponent of Winston Churchill, claiming he was a “genocidal racist.” The previous British prime minister is understood for having stopped the Nazis in World Conflict II.

Anna Keenan

Keenan was a Inexperienced Social gathering candidate in Prince Edward Island driving of Malpeque. Her Twitter bio states that she makes use of each “She” and “They” pronouns, and he or she’s shared pro-abortion views on social media, in addition to Covid alarmism. 

Keenan stated she is dreaming of “constructing a post-colonial future” and that Canada and the US might “take a web page” from Australia’s gun legal guidelines, which ban the possession of firearms for self-defence.

She has additionally criticized the Israeli authorities and suggested that the Freedom Convoy ought to have been eliminated quicker.

Alex Tyrrell

The chief of the Quebec Inexperienced Social gathering advised True North he believes the federal get together ought to “take a pointy left flip and undertake an eco-socialist platform whereas returning to our activist roots.”

Tyrrell has shared anti-Israel views on social media and promoted Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS), a motion that has been accused of detouring into anti-Semitism. Nevertheless, Tyrrell stated he categorically rejects “any assertion that criticism of the Israeli authorities or Israeli army equates to anti-Semitism.”

He additionally stated that former Inexperienced Social gathering Annamie Paul, who’s Jewish, was going through inside backlash as a result of she wouldn’t “condemn the racist actions of the state of Israel.”

Tyrrell has proven help for the Extinction Revolt environmentalist motion and took part in a “Shut Down Canada” Indigenous rail blockade which he stated halted rail Site visitors in Montreal for over two hours. 

Moreover, Tyrrell opposed College of Ottawa professor Verushka Lieutenant-Duval’s use of the “N-Phrase” in one in every of her lectures, and stated he was in solidarity with the George Floyd protesters in the US.

When requested by True North concerning the violence seen throughout the Black Lives Matter protests within the wake of George Floyd’s homicide, Tyrrell stated he’s “impressed by Martin Luther King’s mind-set on violence within the civil rights motion; that its presence doesn’t serve the motion.”

True North reached out to all six potential candidates to present them the chance to clarify a few of their controversial stances.

The Inexperienced Social gathering of Canada is anticipated to decide on its new chief on November 19.