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Jonathan Pedneault
Leader of the Green Party of Canada
Incumbent
Assumed office
February 4, 2025[1]
Co-leader with Elizabeth May
DeputyRainbow Eyes
Preceded byOffice established
Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada
In office
November 19, 2022 – July 9, 2024
LeaderElizabeth May
Preceded byAngela Davidson and Luc Joli-Coeur
Succeeded byRainbow Eyes
Personal details
Born (1990-04-19) April 19, 1990 (age 34)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political partyGreen Party of Canada (current)
Liberal Party of Canada (former)
Residence(s)Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation
  • Activist
  • Journalist
  • Human Rights Investigator
  • Politician

Jonathan Pedneault (born in April 1990, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)[2] is a Canadian activist, journalist, and politician who has been serving as the co-leader of the Green Party of Canada since 2025, alongside Elizabeth May. He previously served as the party's deputy leader from 2022 to 2024.[3][4]

Early life

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Pedneault was born the single-child of a single-mother in Greenfield Park, on the south shore of Montreal.[5][6]

When he was 15, Pedneault co-founded the Soprege, or Société de Prévention du Génocide, a student organization dedicated to raising awareness about the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the crisis in Darfur.[7] In 2006, Pedneault submitted the draft of a bill on the Canadian Responsibility for the Prevention of Genocide to his local MP, Caroline St-Hilaire.[8]

That year, Pedneault received a national scholarship from the Millenium Scholarship Program[9] and was named Personnalité de la Semaine by Québec newspaper La Presse and Radio-Canada.[10] Following his graduation from Jacques-Rousseau high school in Longueuil, Pedneault enrolled as a political science student at the University of Ottawa, beginning his undergraduate classes in the fall of 2007.[11]

Journalism career

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In 2008, shortly before his 18th birthday, Pedneault traveled to Chad and crossed into Sudan’s Darfur with rebels from the Justice and Equality movement to report on the humanitarian crisis and co-produce a CBC/Radio-Canada documentary.[12]

In 2009, Pedneault left the University of Ottawa to seek the Liberal Party of Canada’s nomination in his home district of Longueuil-Pierre-Boucher. Denis Coderre, the party’s lieutenant in Quebec, blocked his bid and appointed a candidate, despite then leader Michael Ignatieff’s assurances the party would hold open nominations in all ridings not represented by a sitting MP.[13] This prompted Pedneault to co-author an op-ed in La Presse calling on Ignatieff to uphold his promise to democratize the party.[14]

Between 2010 and 2012, Pedneault codirected "The New Great Game," a 52-minute documentary produced for CBC/Radio-Canada, Al-Jazeera and Arte about the multipolarization of the Middle East's maritime spaces.[15] Pedneault directed filming and reporting in the region, securing access to both Somali pirates in Galmudug’s town of Hobyo and to NATO anti-piracy naval forces patrolling the Indian ocean.[16][17]

2011 Egypt attack

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Pedneault was attacked by a large mob when deployed to cover the 2011 Egyptian Revolution for L’Actualité.[18] Injured on the head as he tried to help American journalist Greg Palkot, he was hospitalized and later detained by the Egyptian military alongside Fox News journalists. In an interview with GQ, Palkot said: “[A] Canadian guy—he's a young guy, a 20-year-old journalist, actually—had made it to that APC okay, and he actually had gotten on top of it. And he saw me, my face full of blood, my body full of blood, getting pummeled, and he tried to pull me up over the side of the APC. And for his help he got rifle-butted off of the thing and had to find his way to safety, and luckily he did.”[19]

Pedneault returned to the region later that year to cover the western and eastern fronts of Libyan civil war.[20] He traveled with James Foley and John Lee Anderson to Tripoli a few days after rebel forces took the capital from Muammar Gaddafi. Foley and Pedneault shared a hotel room in Tripoli with Matthew Van Dyke and a fourth journalist, sharing rides and reporting together as rebels continued to fight pockets of Qaddafi sympathizers in the city.[21]

Training local journalists

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In 2013, Pedneault trained South Sudanese journalists reporting with Radio Tamazuj in both Juba and Malakal.[22] The following year, Pedneault began training journalists with the Réseau des Journalistes pour les Droits de l’Homme during the Central African Republic Civil War, then engulfed in deadly intercommunal violence.[23] That year, Camille Lepage, a close friend of Pedneault, was assassinated.[24] Pedneault brought her body back to her family.[25][26]

Human rights investigations

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Between 2017 and 2022, Pedneault worked as a researcher with the emergencies team at Human Rights Watch.[27] As part of that division, he worked under the radar of the authorities in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Belarus to document torture and excessive use of force by security forces following elections and protests. He also conducted research in conflict affected areas of Cameroon to produce the organization’s first report on the abuses committed by government and opposition forces in the context of the Anglophone crisis.[28][29] Pedneault’s last investigative work with Human Rights Watch took place in Ukraine during the first ten days of the 2022 conflict.[30]

Political career

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On July 16, 2022, Pedneault entered the Green Party of Canada's 2022 leadership race, running with former leader Elizabeth May on a shared platform.[31][32] They supported moving the Green Party to a co-leadership model.[33][34] After May won the election, Pedneault was announced as deputy leader of the party.[35][36][37] As co-leadership is not formally recognized in the party’s constitution, and Pedneault served as May's deputy leader while the two sought to amend the party constitution.[38]

Pedneault was nominated as the Green Party candidate in the 2023 Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount federal by-election.[39] In the by-election, Pedneault finished fourth with 13.45% of the vote, with Liberal Anna Gainey elected to succeed Marc Garneau.[40] The result was the highest Green Party vote share percentage in the riding's history.

The proposed constitutional change was not approved due to internal disagreement and on July 9, 2024, Jonathan Pedneault resigned as deputy leader, citing personal reasons.[41][42][43] He returned in January 2025 to serve as co-leader, pending election by party membership, which was approved on February 4, 2025.[44][45][46]

Electoral history

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Canadian federal by-election, June 19, 2023: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount
Resignation of Marc Garneau
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Anna Gainey 11,051 50.87 -2.90
New Democratic Jean-François Filion 3,001 13.81 -5.39
Conservative Mathew Kaminski 2,936 13.51 -0.55
Green Jonathan Pedneault 2,922 13.45 +9.42
Bloc Québécois Laurence Massey 985 4.53 -0.75
Centrist Alex Trainman Montagano 510 2.35
People's Tiny Olinga 141 0.65 -2.64
Rhinoceros Sean Carson 97 0.45
Christian Heritage Yves Gilbert 65 0.30 +0.17
No Affiliation[a] Félix Vincent Ardea 18 0.08
Total valid votes 21,726 99.25
Total rejected ballots 165 0.75 -0.22
Turnout 29.93 -32.63
Eligible voters 73,152
Liberal hold Swing +1.25
Source: Elections Canada[47]
  1. ^ Ardea is a member of the Communist League, an unregistered party; "No Affiliation" is EC's term for leaving the party affiliation blank on a candidate's registration form.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Historic Vote: Greens Choose Co-Leadership".
  2. ^ "Jonathan Pedneault to Run for the Green Party in NDG-Westmount".
  3. ^ "Elizabeth May elected Green Party leader again, plans to co-lead with Jonathan Pedneault". ctvnews.ca. 19 November 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-11-20. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  4. ^ "Jonathan Pedneault rejoins Greens as co-leader".
  5. ^ ""Meeting Global Challenges: Canada's Responsibilities in a Chaotic World" with Jonathan Pedneault | Department of Political Studies".
  6. ^ "Green Party co-leader running in federal by-election". 15 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Jonathan Pedneault de retour au Parti vert du Canada comme cochef". 27 January 2025.
  8. ^ "Caroline St-Hilaire, "Jonathan Pedneault" on June 7th, 2006 | openparliament.ca". openparliament.ca. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  9. ^ "COMMISSION SCOLAIRE MARIE-VICTORIN CONSEIL DES COMMISSAIRES SÉANCE ORDINAIRE DU 22 MAI 2007" (PDF).
  10. ^ Richer, Anne (April 29, 2007). ""La personnalité de la semaine"". La Presse. p. 8. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  11. ^ "The Kleinmann Family Foundation Annual Cégep Holocaust Symposium". vaniercollege.qc.ca. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  12. ^ Khan, Jooneed (August 22, 2008). "Refuge: le Darfour vu par deux Montréalais". La Presse. Archived from the original on July 23, 2022. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  13. ^ Marissal, Vincent (22 September 2009). "Coderre gagne, le PLC perd". La Presse. Archived from the original on 23 July 2022. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  14. ^ "Nous méritons mieux". La Presse. 24 September 2009. Archived from the original on 23 July 2022. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  15. ^ "The New Great Game". Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  16. ^ Pendneault, Jonathan (January 24, 2011). "Somalie : sur la trace des pirates". www.lactualite.com. Archived from the original on July 23, 2022. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  17. ^ "Jonathan Pedneault redevient cochef du Parti vert après avoir jeté l'éponge". 27 January 2025.
  18. ^ Grandmont, Charles (February 3, 2011). "Un reporter de L'actualité agressé au Caire : le récit". www.lactualite.com. Archived from the original on July 24, 2022. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  19. ^ Khan, Taimur (February 16, 2011). "How I Survived an Attack in Cairo". GQ. Archived from the original on July 23, 2022. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  20. ^ Pedneault, Jonathan Pedneault, photos par Jonathan (2011-10-12). "Libye : journal d'une révolution". L’actualité (in Canadian French). Archived from the original on 2022-07-24. Retrieved 2022-07-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ Matthewvandyke (2014-09-10). "A Tribute to James Foley and Steven Sotloff". The Freedom Fighter Blog. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
  22. ^ "Analysis: A chief's death". Radio Tamazuj. 13 May 2013. Archived from the original on 2022-07-23. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
  23. ^ Davis, Patrick. "Supporting local media in the Central African Republic". Humanitarian Practice Network. Archived from the original on 2022-07-24. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
  24. ^ "La communauté journalistique salue Camille Lepage". La Presse+ (in French). 2014-05-15. Archived from the original on 2022-07-23. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
  25. ^ Håskoll-Haugen, Anne (2017-04-07). "Jonathan (27) dokumenterer overgrep i Sør-Sudan. Ville du orket en slik jobb?". www.bistandsaktuelt.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2022-07-24.
  26. ^ "A Radio "Bridge" to Peace". Information Saves Lives | Internews. Archived from the original on 2022-07-23. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
  27. ^ "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 2022-07-23. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
  28. ^ "UN Peacekeepers Allegedly Raped Another Child and Murdered Civilians in the Central African Republic". www.vice.com. 11 August 2015. Archived from the original on 2022-07-23. Retrieved 2022-07-24.
  29. ^ "Svalbard som fristed". www.svalbardposten.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). 2017-07-14. Archived from the original on 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2022-07-22.
  30. ^ Sauvé, Mathieu-Robert (11 April 2022), Un Québécois a documenté des crimes de guerre, archived from the original on 2022-07-23, retrieved 2022-07-24
  31. ^ Cochrane, David; Thurton, David (July 29, 2022). "Elizabeth May is pitching herself as co-leader of the Green Party: sources". CBC News. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
  32. ^ Thurton, David (August 31, 2022). "Green Party leadership candidates launch their campaigns". CBC News. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
  33. ^ "Our Pledge". Elizabeth May & Jonathan Pedneault. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  34. ^ Smith, Dale (October 19, 2022). "Meet the queer documentarian joining Elizabeth May on the Green Party leadership ballot". xtramagazine.com. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
  35. ^ "Elizabeth May returns to Green Party leadership with running mate Jonathan Pedneault". thestar.com. 19 November 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-11-20. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  36. ^ "Elizabeth May elected Green leader again, to share burden with Jonathan Pedneault". edmontonsun.com. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  37. ^ "Greens Approve Constitutional Change to Allow Co-leadership".
  38. ^ "Elizabeth May elected Green leader again, to share burden with Jonathan Pedneault". Toronto Sun. November 19, 2022.
  39. ^ "Green Party deputy leader to run in upcoming Montreal byelection". CTVNews. 2023-05-15. Archived from the original on 2023-06-12. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
  40. ^ "June 19, 2023, by-elections—Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  41. ^ "Green Party deputy leader Jonathan Pedneault steps down for 'personal reasons'". CBC News. July 9, 2024. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  42. ^ "Jonathan Pedneault resigns from Green Party, leaving Elizabeth May as sole leader". Toronto Star. July 9, 2024. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  43. ^ "Deputy leader stepping down from bid to co-lead federal Green Party after internal debate". Toronto Star. July 9, 2024. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  44. ^ The Canadian Press (January 27, 2025). "Pedneault plans return as Green Party co-leader after 6-month pause". CBC News. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
  45. ^ Lachance Nové, Fabrice (2025-02-04). "Historic Vote: Greens Choose Co-Leadership". Green Party of Canada. Retrieved 2025-02-14.
  46. ^ Benson, Stuart (February 11, 2025). "Greens can tap into global network as Canada finds itself with few friends amid U.S. threats, say co-leaders". The Hill Times. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
  47. ^ "June 19, 2023, by-elections—Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
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