Daniel Green (politician)
Daniel Green (born May 29, 1955) is a Canadian politician, environmentalist and scientific communicator. Since 2000, he has been a consultant for Sierra Club of Canada, Société pour vaincre la pollution (SVP), Coalition Eau Secours, the Rivers Foundation, Nature Québec and Parks Canada.[1] In 2014, Elizabeth May appointed him deputy leader of the Green Party of Canada.[2] He served as deputy leader alongside Jo-Ann Roberts until November 2019, when Roberts became the interim leader of the party.
Daniel Green | |
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Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada | |
Assumed office December 5, 2014 | |
Leader | Elizabeth May Jo-Ann Roberts (interim) Annamie Paul |
Preceded by | Georges Laraque |
Personal details | |
Born | Daniel Green May 29, 1955 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Citizenship | Canada |
Nationality | Canadian |
Political party | Green Party of Canada |
Residence | Hampstead, Quebec, Canada |
Alma mater | Université du Québec à Montréal |
Occupation | Politician |
Profession | Scientific communicator |
Environmental science career
A graduate in biological sciences and environmental science from the Université du Québec à Montréal, Green has been working on the problem of toxic substances in the environment since the 1980s.[1] Between 1980 and 2000, he headed Société pour vaincre la pollution (SVP).
Since the early 2000s, Green has acted as the SVP's co-chair and has been vocal against the effect of pollution on public health. Examples of his activism are the asbestos controversy,[3] the trichlorethylene contaminated water case in Shannon,[4] the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster[5] and Montreal REM train project.[6]
Political career
In 2014, Green became a member of the Green Party of Canada. In December 2014, Green Party leader Elizabeth May appointed him deputy leader of the party. He ran in the 2015 Canadian federal election in the new riding of Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs.[7] He lost to Liberal candidate Marc Miller.[8]
As part of the Liberal government's plan to reform Canada's electoral system following the 2015 election, Green pushed for the introduction of a proportional voting system, which, in his opinion, would make the electoral process more democratic and more representative. To this end, he sought to show the differences between the first-past-the-post voting and proportional representation.[9]
Green ran in a federal by-election in the riding of Saint-Laurent in March 2017. He came third behind Liberal candidate Emmanuella Lampropoulos and Conservative candidate Jimmy Yu, winning 8% of the vote.[10] In February 2019, he came third in the federal by-election in Outremont with 12.9% of the vote,[11] the best result for the Green Party of Canada in Quebec elections.[12]
Electoral record
2019 Canadian federal election: Outremont | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
Liberal | Rachel Bendayan | 19,148 | 46.19 | +5.76 | ||||
New Democratic | Andrea Clarke | 8,319 | 20.07 | -7.45 | ||||
Bloc Québécois | Célia Grimard | 5,741 | 13.85 | +2.63 | ||||
Green | Daniel Green | 5,018 | 12.1 | -0.83 | ||||
Conservative | Jasmine Louras | 2,707 | 6.53 | +0.39 | ||||
People's | Sabin Levesque | 369 | 0.89 | -0.65 | ||||
Rhinoceros | Mark John Hiemstra | 155 | 0.37 | |||||
Total valid votes/Expense limit | 41,457 | 100.0 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 455 | |||||||
Turnout | 41,912 | 62.2 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 67,384 | |||||||
Source: Elections Canada[13][14] |
Canadian federal by-election, February 25, 2019: Outremont Resignation of Tom Mulcair | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Rachel Bendayan | 6,086 | 40.43 | +6.97 | ||||
New Democratic | Julia Sánchez | 4,142 | 27.52 | -16.60 | ||||
Green | Daniel Green | 1,946 | 12.93 | +9.32 | ||||
Bloc Québécois | Michel Duchesne | 1,674 | 11.12 | +2.71 | ||||
Conservative | Jasmine Louras | 925 | 6.14 | -3.39 | ||||
People's | James Seale | 232 | 1.54 | - | ||||
Independent | William Barrett | 48 | 0.32 | - | ||||
Total valid votes | 15,053 | 99.11 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 135 | 0.89 | -0.08 | |||||
Turnout | 15,188 | 21.57 | -40.35 | |||||
Eligible voters | 70,414 | |||||||
Liberal gain from New Democratic | Swing | +11.78 | ||||||
Source: Elections Canada [15] |
Canadian federal by-election, April 3, 2017: Saint-Laurent Resignation of Stéphane Dion | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Emmanuella Lambropoulos | 11,461 | 59.13 | −2.44 | ||||
Conservative | Jimmy Yu | 3,784 | 19.52 | +0.01 | ||||
Green | Daniel Green | 1,548 | 7.99 | +5.57 | ||||
New Democratic | Mathieu Auclair | 1,511 | 7.80 | −3.72 | ||||
Bloc Québécois | William Fayad | 951 | 4.91 | +0.25 | ||||
Rhinoceros | Chinook Blais-Leduc | 129 | 0.67 | – | ||||
Total valid votes/Expense limit | 19,384 | 100.0 | – | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 255 | 1.30 | +0.30 | |||||
Turnout | 19,639 | 28.33 | −30.65 | |||||
Eligible voters | 69,302 | |||||||
Liberal hold | Swing | −1.24 |
2015 Canadian federal election: Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
Liberal | Marc Miller | 25,491 | 50.82 | +23.34 | $104,027.97 | |||
New Democratic | Allison Turner | 11,757 | 23.44 | -18.05 | $76,667.01 | |||
Conservative | Steve Shanahan | 5,948 | 11.86 | -0.05 | $10,419.44 | |||
Bloc Québécois | Chantal St-Onge | 4,307 | 8.59 | -7.44 | $2,334.04 | |||
Green | Daniel Green | 2,398 | 4.78 | +1.99 | $84,091.06 | |||
Rhinoceros | Daniel Wolfe | 161 | 0.32 | – | – | |||
Communist | Bill Sloan | 102 | 0.20 | – | – | |||
Total valid votes/Expense limit | 50,164 | 100.00 | – | $221,982.87 | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 435 | 0.86 | – | – | ||||
Turnout | 50,599 | 59.96 | – | – | ||||
Eligible voters | 84,387 | – | – | – | ||||
Source: Elections Canada[16][17] |
References
- "Outremont". Green Party of Canada. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- Croteau, Martin (2 December 2014). "Parti vert: Daniel Green remplace Georges Laraque". La Presse (in French). Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- "Laurent Lessard choqué par un article de Daniel Green". fr.canoe.ca (in French). Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- "Le taux de cancer est plus élevé à Shannon, dit un environnementaliste". Le Soleil (in French). 25 January 2011. Archived from the original on 13 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- "Entrevue avec Daniel Green de la Société pour Vaincre la pollution | ICI Radio-Canada.ca". Radio-Canada (in French). Archived from the original on 25 June 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- Scott, Marian; March 8, Montreal Gazette Updated; 2017 (9 March 2017). "REM train construction would unearth toxic waste site: Environmentalist | Montreal Gazette". Retrieved 8 August 2019.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
- Josselin, Marie-Laure (14 August 2019). "Une journée de campagne avec Daniel Green, du Parti vert | Élections Canada 2015". Radio-Canada.ca (in French). Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- "Official Voting Results". www.elections.ca. Archived from the original on 12 June 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- Wiart, Nikki (5 August 2016). "The Greens want electoral reform. It's no surprise why". www.macleans.ca. Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- "Report on the 2017 by-elections". www.elections.ca. 27 August 2018. Archived from the original on 12 June 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- "Élections partielles: victoire douce-amère pour Jagmeet Singh". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- FM, Player. "Ontario's Health Overhaul And Byelection Breakdown Power And Politics podcast". player.fm. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
- "February 25, 2019 By-elections Election Results". Elections Canada. 27 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- Elections Canada – Forty-Second General Election 2015 - Poll-by-poll results
- Elections Canada – Final Candidates Election Expenses Limits