2022 Green Party of Canada leadership election

• September 20 – 2021 Canadian federal election was held, with the party winning two seats, but Annamie Paul failed to win her riding of Toronto Centre.
• September 27 – Annamie Paul announced she will begin the process of resigning as leader.[3]
• October 27 – Voting started in a leadership review.[17]
• November 10 – Paul announced her pending resignation (effective November 14) and ended her membership with the party.[4] Several days later, her resignation was accepted by the Green Party's federal council and took effect.[5][6] The party also cancelled the leadership review.[5]
• November 14 – Paul resigns as leader.
• November 15–19 – The party made an open call for applicants for the role of interim leader.[18] Twenty applications were received.[7]
• November 24 – Amita Kuttner was appointed interim leader.[19][20]

• May 24 – The leadership election officially began, pursuant to the party's constitution.[7][8]
• June 28 – Leadership contest rules were announced. The application period for leadership contestants opened.[21]
• August 5 – Application period for leadership candidates ends.[21]
• August 31 – GPC announces all leadership contestants, first round of campaign begins.[21]
• September 14 – Original deadline to become a party member and be eligible to vote in the first round.[21]
• September 28 — Due to organizational problems, the federal council decided to reduce the leadership election to a single round of voting to run from November 12 to November 19.[16] The original first round of voting would have taken place from October 7 to October 14.[21]
• October 19 – Deadline to become a party member and be eligible to vote.[21]
• November 12 – Voting begins.[16]
• November 19 – Voting ends at 3:30 pm (ET), results announced at 8 PM (ET).[21]

Sarah Gabrielle Baron is a teacher, businesswoman and creative author residing on Manitoulin Island, Ontario.[22] She was the candidate for Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing in 2006, and an independent candidate for Durham in 2021, finishing in fifth place out of seven candidates for the seat and receiving 0.37% of the vote.[23][24][25] She calls for a moratorium on new nuclear development.[26]

Campaign website: www.sarahgabriellebaron.ca

Simon Gnocchini-Messier is a senior teacher at the Department of National Defense. He was the candidate for Hull—Aylmer in 2021, finishing in sixth place out of nine candidates for the seat with 2.8% of the vote.[27][28] He says he would work with municipalities to make federally owned land in urban areas available for cooperative farming, dedicate space for food production in public parks larger than two acres, and include vertical farming in new residential developments greater than 100 units.[29] He also calls for an increase in hydroelectricity production, in part to support electrification of public transit.[29] He proposes limiting immigration to 300,000 people per year to achieve environmentally sustainable population growth.[30]

Campaign website: www.simongmessier.ca/en

Anna Keenan and Chad Walcott are running on a joint ticket with a shared platform.[23][25]

Anna Keenan, 36,[31] was the candidate for Malpeque in 2019 and 2021, the latter of which she finished third out of five candidates with 14.32% of the vote. Keenan is also currently the Green Party critic for electoral reform. Keenan has degrees in physics and economics from the University of Queensland, Australia, and has worked for 15 years as a campaigner for renewable energy, a labour organizer, and a community organizer within organizations such as Greenpeace International and 350.org. She currently lives in PEI, where she led the provincial Greens through a expansion and professionalization which led to them becoming PEI's Official Opposition in 2019. She has run twice as a federal candidate and has been in the top six Green candidates nationwide both times. Since 2019 she is the Green Party of Canada’s Democratic Institutions Critic.[32] She is believed to be the first person from Prince Edward Island to run for the leadership of a major political party.[33]

Chad Walcott, 34,[31] was the candidate for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in the 2018 Quebec provincial election, finishing fourth out of nine candidates with 6.67% of the vote. Walcott was born in Montreal and received a Bachelor of Political Science from Concordia University. He has worked 10 years in politics, community engagement and social development, including 2 ½ years as a fundraiser for the Jewish General Hospital Foundation. He was involved in student mobilization at Concordia, especially during the 2011-2012 Maple Spring when he organized and led the largest student protest in Concordia's history (for which he received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life). In 2018, Walcott ran for the Green Party of Quebec and won that party's second-highest result.[34]

As part of Keenan and Walcott's platform they support Canada moving towards implementing a universal basic income (UBI).[35] They believe the Green Party should adopt a co-leadership model.[10] Other policies include a four-day work week for federal workers, a ban on fossil fuel projects and the creation of a national electric inter-city bus service.[30]

Campaign website: www.keenanwalcott.ca

Elizabeth May, 68, and Jonathan Pedneault are running on a joint ticket with a shared platform.[36][37][25] They support moving the Green Party to a co-leadership model.[11]

Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich—Gulf Islands since 2011, Green Party leader (2006–2019), and parliamentary leader since 2019. May previously said she would not return as permanent nor interim leader,[38] but when asked in July 2022, she did not deny considering a run.[39]

Jonathan Pedneault is a human rights activist and co-director of the 2008 documentary Refuge: A Film About Darfur from Montreal, Quebec.[40][41][42]

Campaign websites: elizabethmay.ca and www.jonathanpedneault.ca