Climate Change & Capitalism - Interview w/ Green Party MP Paul Manly

Paul Manly’s path to parliament was never a certainty. A classically trained jazz musician, documentary filmmaker, and activist, Paul came to politics by seeing the needs facing Canadians and our planet being ignored by the status quo. In today’s drop, we have a candid conversation and explore the fight for justice and Palestinian liberation that led Manly to run as a Green, the existential crisis of climate change and Canada’s failure to hit every carbon reduction target that’s ever been set, and the battle for economic justice that makes him the target of plenty of heckling on the floor of the House. We found out the conversation with a simple question, is the Green Party a home for socialists?

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