Kathryn Cholette

Kathryn Cholette is a Canadian politician who served as leader of the Green Party of Canada from 1988 to 1990. Just prior to the end of her term as leader, Cholette publicly resigned her post in an article entitled "Why I Left the Green Party". She was the first woman elected to lead a federal political party in Canada, preceding Audrey McLaughlin by a year.^[1]

Cholette was a co-coordinator (with Frank Cox and Kel Kelly) of the Tin Wis Coalition in British Columbia. The Tin Wis Coalition brought together First Nations peoples, labour unions and environmental groups to discuss the concerns they held in common, such as forestry issues. She was an early activist in the Green Cities Movement in Vancouver, including the effort to create a sustainable community in Vancouver's South False Creek area. She served as editor of the EcoCity Section of the national magazine "New City", was on the founding Steering Committee of Village Vancouver Transition Society, and is on the Board of Directors of New City Institute (NCI).

Cholette has a Social Service Worker Certificate, Douglas College, a Permaculture Design Certificate, a BA in Anthropology and Sociology, SFU, and a Master of Liberal Studies, SFU. Her Masters project explored the blocks and pathways to sustainability in key western institutions and political ideologies. She studied New Economics at Schumacher College.

• "Green Party of Canada". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on September 22, 2008. Retrieved 2010-06-07.
• "Leadership Roles - Green Party of Canada". Parliament of Canada. Retrieved 2010-06-07.

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Green parties in Canada

Party entities

Federal	Green Party of Canada
Provincial & territorial	Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Nova Scotia Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan
Municipal	Burnaby Vancouver
Former parties	Alberta Montreal Yukon

Federal level

Leaders	Hancock Trieger Cholette Lea Priesnitz Garfinkle (interim) Russow Bradshaw (interim) Harris May Roberts (interim) Paul Kuttner (interim) May
Leadership elections	list 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2020 2022
Parliamentary election candidate lists	1984 1988 1993 1997 2000 2004 2006 2008 2011 2015 2019 2021

Provincial level

Current leaders	Vacant – AB Furstenau – BC Gibson – MB Coon – NB Edmonds – NS Schreiner – ON Bernard – PE (interim) Tyrrell – QC Hunter – SK
Most recent or upcoming leadership elections	Alberta 2018 British Columbia 2020 Manitoba 2023 New Brunswick 2012 Nova Scotia 2016 Ontario 2009 Prince Edward Island 2026 Quebec 2013 Saskatchewan 2016 Yukon 2017
Provincial election candidate lists	Green Alberta candidates Green BC candidates Green Manitoba candidates Green Ontario candidates Green Quebec candidates

Caucuses

• Young Greens of Canada

See also

• History of the Green Party of Canada
• List of Green politicians who have held office in Canada

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