So, a bit earlier than usual, I am able to share our new slogan with you. As a party once described by heroic German Green Petra Kelly as the “anti-party party,” we have also pushed back at anyone else’s labels. We are definitely a round peg – holistic, inter-generational and planetary. Our round peg does not fit well in the old 19th Century square hole of “left-wing” or “right-wing.”

The real divide of the 21st Century is not of left versus right, but insiders (the one percent) versus the rest of us. We are assaulted by the mindless chanting of demagogues, wrongly described as “populists.” We know that fear-based campaigning and propaganda blaming “the other” – no matter how described – cynically divide us just when we need to come together. Politics of exclusion and division threaten the heart of our democracy. And those who preach inclusion, only to break their word, feed the very beast they claim to denounce.

At the heart of our new slogan is the banner under which we campaigned in 2015: For a Canada that works. Together. To face the threats to a healthy democracy, to a healthy biosphere and to a society grounded in equity and justice – with Indigenous peoples – we must do it together. So (drum roll please), we launch the 2019 slogan: "Not Left. Not Right. Forward Together."