Green Party of Canada

Leader

Elizabeth May

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Positions on Issues

• Climate & Environment

  The party's founding issue. Calls for 60% emissions reduction by 2030, an immediate halt to new fossil-fuel infrastructure, and a fully decarbonized electricity grid by 2030.

• Cost of Living

  Supports a Guaranteed Livable Income, federal rent controls, excess-profits tax, and addressing housing costs as the dominant affordability driver.

• Digital Rights

  Supports strong privacy law, platform accountability, net neutrality, banning facial recognition by police, and the right to repair as digital-economy fundamentals.

• Economy & Jobs

  Supports a federal Just Transition Act for fossil-fuel workers, green-jobs investment, a Guaranteed Livable Income pilot, and ending fossil-fuel subsidies as redirected to clean energy.

• Education

  Supports free post-secondary tuition, expanded student grants over loans, and federal climate-literacy curriculum funding offered to provinces.

• Healthcare

  Supports universal pharmacare, public long-term care standards, expanded mental health funding, and Indigenous-led health programs as part of reconciliation.

• Housing

  Supports a national housing strategy with public co-op construction, retrofits for energy efficiency, and a federal vacancy tax on speculative residential investment.

• Immigration

  Supports increased refugee resettlement, climate-displacement protections, and expanded family reunification. Opposes deportation of long-term residents with deep community ties.

• Indigenous Rights

  Centers Indigenous sovereignty, free, prior and informed consent on land use, full UNDRIP implementation, and reparative funding for residential-school survivors.

• National Security

  Opposes the 2% spending pledge as unnecessary for legitimate defence. Supports increased peacekeeping, Arctic environmental monitoring, and rigorous parliamentary oversight of security agencies.