Annamie Paul

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Annamie Paul
Annamie Paul in Toronto Regent Park (cropped).jpg
Leader of the Green Party
Assumed office
October 3, 2020
DeputyDaniel Green
Preceded byJo-Ann Roberts (interim)
Personal details
Born (1972-11-03) November 3, 1972 (age 47)[1]
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
CitizenshipCanadian
Political partyGreen
Spouse(s)Mark Freeman
Children2
RelativesNgozi Paul (sister)
EducationPrinceton University (MPA)
University of Ottawa (LL.B.)
OccupationLawyer
WebsiteCampaign website

Annamie Paul (born November 3, 1972) is a Canadian activist and lawyer who has been the leader of the Green Party of Canada since October 3, 2020. She is the first Black Canadian and first Jewish woman to be elected leader of a major federal party in Canada.

She was a candidate in the 2019 Canadian federal election. Paul won the 2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election to replace Elizabeth May.[2][3] Paul is running in the Toronto Centre by-election to be held on October 26, 2020, which was called following the resignation of Bill Morneau.[4]

Background[edit]

Paul started her involvement with politics early, working as a page in the Ontario Legislature at age 12, and later as a page at the Canadian Senate, and as an Ontario Legislature intern for the Progressive Conservatives and the Liberals in 1996.[5][6] She attended high school at Toronto's Runnymede Collegiate Institute and holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Ottawa and a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University.[7][5][8] She was called to the bar in Ontario in 1998.[9]

She was the founder and executive director of the Canadian Centre for Political Leadership from 2001 to 2005 and has worked in civic engagement and international affairs positions, including in political affairs in Canada's Mission to the European Union and in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.[10][11][2][12] She is co-founder of the Barcelona International Public Policy Hub (BIPP HUB).[13] She speaks English, French, Catalan and Spanish.[12]

Paul is the older sister of Canadian actress Ngozi Paul, twin sister to Luther, and is married to international human rights lawyer Mark Freeman.[9] Her mother is from Nevis and her father from Dominica.[14] Paul converted to Judaism in 2000, the faith of her husband.[15]

Civic engagement[edit]

In 2001, Paul started the Canadian Centre for Political Leadership (CCPL),[16] whose work was supported by a fellowship from the Echoing Green Foundation[17] and support from the Maytree Foundation. The CCPL was an organization focused on helping women, Indigenous persons, and People of Colour to pursue public offices.[18][19] Through the CCPL, Paul ran training sessions across Canada,[20] as well as conferences devoted to participation in elected roles and board appointments.[21][22] Participants in the CCPL's programs went on to achieve those objectives, being appointed and elected to boards and political staff positions.[23]

In 2017, Paul co-founded the Barcelona International Public Policy Hub (BIPP HUB), a social enterprise co-work space designed to be a catalyst for international NGOs working on global challenges.[24][25][26] Aside from providing support, the hub also hosts individual projects including democraciaAbierta, the Spanish language branch of OpenDemocracy,[27] Verificat, a Catalan language news fact-checking service, and the Climate Infrastructure Project.[28]

In 2019, Paul co-created the 1834 Fellowship to train young Black Canadian policy leaders, a project of Operation Black Vote Canada.[29]

Early political career (1996–2020)[edit]

Paul interned for Liberal MPP Dominic Agostino in 1996, who served as Gerard Kennedy's leadership campaign co-chair. She stated she interned for him to see what a leadership campaign looked like.[30]

Paul moved back to Canada and won the Green nomination for Toronto Centre in July 2019. She stood in the 2019 federal election as the Green Party candidate in Toronto Centre, where she lost to then-Finance Minister Bill Morneau.[31][32][33] Soon after her nomination, she was appointed to the Green Party's Shadow Cabinet as International Affairs Critic by Elizabeth May, a position she held until February 2020, when she stepped down to enter the leadership race.[34][2]

In March 2020, she was the first candidate registered to run in the race to be the 9th leader of the Green Party of Canada.[35] She called the leadership race, the first one since 2006, an "opportunity for renewal" for the party.[31] On September 24, 2020, Paul announced that she had received permission from the Green Party to apply to be a candidate in the October 2020 federal by-election in Toronto Centre.[4]

Leadership of the Green Party of Canada (2020–present)[edit]

See also: 2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election

On October 3, 2020, Paul was elected leader of the Green Party of Canada, becoming the first Black Canadian and first Jewish woman to be elected leader of a major political party in Canada.[2][36][37][38] She won 54.53% of votes on the final round of voting, defeating runner-up Dimitri Lascaris and 6 other candidates.

Awards and fellowships[edit]

She is an Action Canada Fellow,[6][39] Echoing Green Fellow,[9] member of the University of Ottawa Common Law Honour Society,[40] alumna of the Government of Canada Recruitment of Policy Leaders Program,[41] and a recipient of the Harry Jerome Award.[42]

References[edit]

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  3. ^ Thurton, David (2020-06-18). "Green leadership hopeful wants to become the first black woman to lead a national party". CBC News. Archived from the original on 2020-06-26.
  4. ^ a b Zimonjic, Peter (September 24, 2020). "Green Party leadership candidate Annamie Paul to run in Toronto Centre by-election". CBC News. Archived from the original on September 25, 2020. Retrieved September 26, 2020.
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  6. ^ a b "2003/2004 Fellows". Action Canada. Archived from the original on 2020-01-27. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  7. ^ Bakka, Sylvia (March 24, 1994). "Economics crash course puts students to test". The Ottawa Citizen. ProQuest 239801989. Second-year University of Ottawa law student Annamie Paul ...
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  9. ^ a b c Steed, Judy (June 25, 2002). "Helping minorities gain political clout". Toronto Star. p. E4. ProQuest 438460247,ProQuest 1441576727.
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  11. ^ "Meet Annamie, nomination candidate". Toronto Centre Greens (in French). Archived from the original on 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
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  42. ^ "1993 Alumni". Harry Jerome Awards. Archived from the original on 2020-01-28. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
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