"I support Dimitri because he understands Canada's history of dispossessing Indigenous peoples and he has a clear platform that will help restructure Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships based on truth and justice".

Dimitri Lascaris is proud to receive the endorsement of Rowan Miller, GPC Candidate for Tobique-Mactaquac in 2019 and GPNB candidate for Carleton-Victoria.

Team Dimitri is honoured to receive the endorsement of Ralph Shayne, President of the Quebec Wing of the Green Party of Canada.

Sharon Labchuk is a three-time candidate, regional organizer, shadow cabinet critic under two leaders, campaign manager for Elizabeth May and national Director for Organizing for 5 years. She also founded the Green Party of PEI in 2005 and led it for 7 years.

Our team is glad to announce that Dimitri was endorsed by Kevin Reynolds, Canadian Olympic medallist in figure skating, BA International Relations, UBC.

COVID-19 has demonstrated the deficiencies of the Canadian health system.

We are pleased to announce that Dimitri was endorsed by André Forsythe, Executive Director Canadian Climate Challenge, project lead School for Climate, climate activist and former sustainable fashion consultant (FTA).

We are glad to announce that Dimitri was endorsed by David Weber, multi time GPC candidate in Kitchener South.

Neoliberal policies of recent decades, and the pandemic, set back historic struggles for equality, freedom and respect. They increased economic inequality and poverty and worsened discrimination, exclusion and backlash facing equity seeking groups – women, racialized Canadians, 2SLGBTQIA+, the old, the young, migrants and mentally ill and differently abled people.

Dimitri Lascaris is endorsed by Lisa Barrett, former GPC candidate and Foreign Affairs critic.

Team Dimitri is very honoured to have earned the endorsement of Rabbi David Mivasair.

Team Dimitri received the endorsement of Carmen Budilean, strategic consultant and former candidate for the Green Party.

Click below to watch Dimitri speak on Palestinian rights, Venezuela, NATO, the global climate crisis, as well as the international mining and arms industries.

Team Dimitri is proud to have earned the endorsement of sociologist Maria Páez Victor, MA. Ph.D., who has written numerous academic works, and has a weekly radio program on the Spanish-language community radio in Toronto.

Team Dimitri is very honoured to have earned the endorsement of Caspar Davis, a 20-year member of the Green Party, and long-time activist in Victoria, with the BC Sierra Club and World Federalists of Canada.

According to figures released by the Green Party on Tuesday, Dimitri Lascaris saw a remarkable surge of grass roots support, more than doubling funds raised during the prior five months of the campaign.

As a settler society, Canada’s history has been one of dispossessing Indigenous peoples of their land, sovereignty and rights.

Team Dimitri is very honoured to have earned the endorsement of Peter A. Victor, Professor Emeritus at York University.

Kim Goldberg is an award-winning poet, journalist and the author of eight books including Devolution (poems of ecopocalypse).

The global ecological emergency is an existential threat.

We’ve heard Greens across the country who were very excited for the highly anticipated discussion between Dimitri Lascaris and Annamie Paul at the PEI Green Drinks event on August 18. 

Canadians are unsatisfied with our current first-past-the-post electoral system, which results in the misrepresentation of voters and hyper-partisanship. 

We are honoured at Team Dimitri to have earned the endorsement of physician, author and renowned anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott.

Dimitri is continuing to meet and discuss with Canadians in communities big and small across the country. 

If today the world faces ecological and public health emergencies without the means to coordinate international action to address them, something is clearly wrong in the way its international relations are organized. Canada’s foreign policy has played no small part in bringing matters to this pass. 

Our existing economy not only puts profit before people and guarantees spiralling inequality, but it is also the root cause of the ecological emergency. 

When my candidacy was accepted on June 2nd, I had no idea what would come next. People across this country have responded to our call to unite progressives into the Green Party of Canada. 

The world of work has changed. Workers' rights, both individual and collective, have deteriorated; high-quality jobs have been replaced by precarious and part-time work with few benefits and no pensions; and large corporations prey on small businesses and workers.

In theory, Canadians have equal rights. In practice, they do not.

Today, Team Dimitri releases the Justice Reform chapter of our campaign platform. 

Every year, on July 1, we Canadians celebrate and reflect upon what it means to be Canadian. 

On the first televised leadership debate of the campaign, Dimitri made a bold call for social, economic, and environmental justice.

Fair Vote Canada held a special debate on the state of Canada's democracy.

Renowned musician, co-founder of progressive rock band Pink Floyd, and human rights activist Roger Waters has endorsed Dimitri.

This morning, I learned that my application to participate in the Green Party of Canada leadership race has been accepted following a successful appeal.

On March 31st, Dimitri and four other candidates announced that they would suspend active fundraising in response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dimitri has released the following statement with regard to the status of his appeal:

"The Green Party's vetting committee has accepted my request to disclose the identities of its members and their reasons for not approving my leadership application.

Dimitri has issued the following statement concerning the status of his candidacy:

31 March 2020—Leadership candidates for the Green Party of Canada are announcing a suspension of fundraising, requesting that the party defer payment deadlines, and preparing a roundtable discussion to address the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on Canadians.

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Canada’s federal, provincial and municipal governments have adopted sweeping measures to limit the spread of the virus.

Montreal, March 20, 2020—With reports yesterday that the Trudeau government is preparing a $15-billion bailout of the Canada’s oil and gas sector, Green Party leadership candidate Dimitri Lascaris sees a debacle in the making.

Montreal, QC — Green Party of Canada leadership contestant Dimitri Lascaris is proud to announce the endorsement of his campaign by past party leader Dr. Joan Russow.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 11 MARCH 2020

Montreal, QC — Lawyer, journalist, and activist Dimitri Lascaris announced his campaign for leadership of the Green Party of Canada on Wednesday, promising to shake up Canadian politics with a challenge to progressives from coast to coast.