There was one particularly poignant moment in the debates last Wednesday night when I knew I had cemented my stature as the best candidate in this election and that I would never again be confused with a One-Trick Pony running on a one-issue platform.

Here, in front of a room full of enthusiastic voters there to scrutinize the candidate's knowledge of the subjects that matter most to them, was I able to show definitively just how profoundly prepared I am to serve this constituency with honour and skill.

Still wonder what the Green Party is all about? This is the night to find out! Claude will present his thought-provoking lecture at what will possibly be our biggest campaign event!

Claude William Genest presents: Cool Solutions for a Hot Planet
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An inspiring lecture on solutions to an avoidable climate crisis

Global warming is here. The upcoming climate crisis could possibly the most important challenge humanity will have ever faced. Yet there already are solutions, and those are even simple, practical, profitable, and within our reach.

Claude Genest, who will be running for the Green Party in Westmount-Ville Marie's upcoming federal by-election, sees his party's ecological agenda as a blueprint for improving most other aspects of society.
"One of the flaws in our ability to think, really, is that we've been taught to view the world as good Cartesian scientists," says Genest. "We have viewed things as separate. Over here is the subject of biology, over here ecology, economy, transport, social issues, and we think they're different agendas or different dossiers.

"But when you see things from an ecologist's point of mind, ecology is the study of the relationship of man to everything, so it's like how everything is connected to everything. And sure enough, we begin to see, as we look into this thing called environment, that it is not a separate little patch of woods over there and different.

"In fact, it is everything that makes the economy possible, and therefore finances social programs and all the rest, and it is everything that absorbs the wastes of the economy and of our civilizations. So when you're talking about environment and ecology, you are by definition talking about everything else.

"Environment issues are health issues, transport issues, education issues," Genest adds. "And furthermore, if you were to stop and look beyond the surface of so much social strife, and you look at what people are really fighting about, ultimately if you look at history, they've always been fighting over resources."