Annamie Paul Quotes

Annamie Paul

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 3, 1972

I don't think anything replaces the face-to-face meetings and the personal connections that you get when you're in the same room or same place with people.

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Sometimes the most negative voices in the room are the loudest and it's easy for them to drown out the rest.

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I'm not going to discuss things that are internal party matters and things that are not supposed to be in public domain.

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Every single person who is a member of our party deserves to have certainty. They deserve to know that my attention and focus is where it belongs.

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What people need to realize is that when I was elected and put in this role, I was breaking a glass ceiling. What I didn't realize at the time was that I was breaking a glass ceiling that was going to fall on my head and leave a lot of shards of glass that I was going to have to crawl over throughout my time as a leader.

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Even as the leader of the party, my first duty always is to the people who elected me, my first duty always is going to be to represent the people of this riding in Ottawa.

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We believe that we can win seats with integrity, with good public policy, with evidence-based public policy and that's what it's about for me.

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Anti-Semitism was a constant presence in the campaign after it became known I was Jewish.

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In the case of a Black woman like myself, the most classic trope of all is that we are angry or we are aggressive. It's very difficult to navigate that because in order to be a leader, and particularly a senior leader, you need to be able to speak with conviction to direct people.

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My grandmother worked as a front-line service worker in the hospitals of Toronto Centre and broke her back doing it in the process.

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Canada is so far behind on issues related to systemic racism.

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I'm very firmly of the belief that if we want different outcomes, then we're going to have to make some different choices.

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My son was born between my first and year of graduate studies.

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There seems to be this perception that there was some seat waiting out there for me, that Greens were absolutely guaranteed to win - and there wasn't.

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I was definitely one of those kids who, for whatever reason, followed politics and public policy.

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If you have a diversity of views at the table, you're much more likely to avoid pitfalls.

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It is extremely hard to have your integrity questioned when you value it so much.

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I'm going to be working as hard as I can to give a strong Green option to residents and to give them the option of some real representation.

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I didn't apply for shadow cabinet, because as an MP, I had nine critic portfolios, and so it doesn't make any sense for me to be focusing on just one of those as an adviser on policy to the party.

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The Green Party has the most progressive platform and policies related to issues of social and racial justice.

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