The Green Party wants to “electrify everything” and install “renewables everywhere,” its leader Annamie Paul said in an appearance in Toronto, and to invest in cleantech innovation that can be exported. Outside Montreal, meanwhile, the Bloc Québécois’ Yves-François Blanchet argued for the “end of oil.” He attacked the Liberals for subsidizing fossil fuels instead of green energy, and for their decision to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline project. (The Logic)

Talking point: Bloc or Green MPs could end up with critical votes if the Sept. 20 election produces a minority Parliament. The Greens’ presentation offered more of a set of principles than detailed proposals for a government to put to use. On the other front, the Liberals had Quebec incumbent Steven Guilbeault, a prominent environmentalist before he went into politics, ready to counterattack Blanchet with a reel of pro-fossil-fuel statements the Bloc leader made when he was the province’s environment minister in the mid-2010s.