Daniel Green (politician)

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Daniel Green
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Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada
Assumed office
December 5, 2014
Serving with Bruce Hyer (2014–18),
Jo-Ann Roberts (2018–19)
LeaderElizabeth May
Jo-Ann Roberts (interim)
Preceded byGeorges Laraque
Personal details
Born
Daniel Green

(1955-05-29) May 29, 1955 (age 69)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CitizenshipCanada
Political partyGreen Party of Canada
Residence(s)Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alma materUniversité du Québec à Montréal
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionScientific communicator

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.[citation needed]

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
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
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
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
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

  1. ^ a b "Outremont". Green Party of Canada. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  2. ^ Croteau, Martin (2 December 2014). "Parti vert: Daniel Green remplace Georges Laraque". La Presse (in Canadian French). Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Laurent Lessard choqué par un article de Daniel Green". fr.canoe.ca (in Canadian French). Retrieved 20 June 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) [dead link]
  4. ^ "Le taux de cancer est plus élevé à Shannon, dit un environnementaliste". Le Soleil (in Canadian French). 25 January 2011. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 13 July 2019 suggested (help)
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ 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. {{cite web}}: |last3= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Josselin, Marie-Laure (14 August 2019). "Une journée de campagne avec Daniel Green, du Parti vert | Élections Canada 2015". Radio-Canada.ca (in Canadian French). Archived from the original on 6 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Official Voting Results". www.elections.ca. Archived from the original on 12 June 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "Report on the 2017 by-elections". www.elections.ca. 27 August 2018. Archived from the original on 12 June 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  11. ^ "Élections partielles: victoire douce-amère pour Jagmeet Singh". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  12. ^ FM, Player. "Ontario's Health Overhaul And Byelection Breakdown Power And Politics podcast". player.fm. Retrieved 27 February 2019. [dead link]
  13. ^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  14. ^ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  15. ^ "February 25, 2019 By-elections Election Results". Elections Canada. 27 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  16. ^ Elections Canada – Forty-Second General Election 2015 - Poll-by-poll results
  17. ^ Elections Canada – Final Candidates Election Expenses Limits
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