By Keith Stewart, originally published on Greenpeace

When Mark Carney became our Prime Minister, I asked myself: Can a former Goldman Sachs executive and central banker save Canada and the climate? 

Then I realized: That’s the wrong question. To quote from the 19th century anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

We shouldn’t look to politicians like Mark Carney – or Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre – as top-down saviours. We should be asking: what kind of political space will there be for us as bottom-up organizers to advance our demands and win a better future? 

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