Jim Harris' 2006 election campaign photo.

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Early life and Green activism

Harris was born in Toronto, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History from Queen's University in Kingston in the 1980s.^[1] Initially a Progressive Conservative,^[2] he was converted to green politics in 1985 after reading Green Politics by Fritjof Capra and Charlene Spretnak, highlighting the rise of the German Greens. Harris worked as the National Press Officer of the British Green Party in 1987.^[3] For other uses, see Toronto (disambiguation). ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... Queens University, or simply Queens, is a coeducational, non-sectarian university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on the edge of Lake Ontario. ... Kingston, Ontario, with a 2001 Canadian census population of 114,195 people, is a Canadian city, located in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, where the lake runs into the St. ... The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC) was a Canadian centre-right conservative political party that existed from 1867 to 2003. ... Green politics is a body of political ideas informed by environmentalism aimed at developing a sustainable society. ... Dr. Fritjof Capra – photo by Kate Mount Dr. ... Charlene Spretnak is an author, academic and feminist credited with pioneering work in ecological thought and social criticism. ... Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (literally: Alliance 90/The Greens), the German Green Party, is a political party in Germany whose regional predecessors were founded in the late 1970s as part of the new social movements. ... The Green Party was formed in 1973 as the Ecology Party. ...

Harris helped organize the Ontario Green Party's campaign in the 1990 provincial election, and was himself a candidate in the Toronto division of St. Andrew—St. Patrick.^[4] During the campaign, he spoke out against the provincial government's decision to build more nuclear reactors for the province.^[5] The Green Party fielded 40 candidates and received 33,000 votes, a significant increase from seven candidates and 3,000 votes in the previous 1987 election. Harris finished fourth in his constituency. The Green Party of Ontario (GPO) contests provincial elections in Ontario, Canada. ... As a result of serious scandals, David Petersons Liberal government was defeated by a large protest vote. ... For other uses, see Toronto (disambiguation). ... St. ... David Petersons Liberals were returned to power with a large majority. ...

He campaigned for Mayor of Toronto the following year in the 1991 municipal election, as an independent candidate supporting green policies. Harris called for water conservation and a ban on city pesticide spraying, and endorsed stricter gun control.^[6] Considered a fringe candidate, he finished well behind frontrunners June Rowlands and Jack Layton. This is a list of mayors of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... The 1991 Toronto municipal election was held on November 12, 1991 to elect councillors in Metropolitan Toronto, and mayors, councillors and school trustees in Toronto, York, East York, North York, Scarborough and Etobicoke. ... June Rowlands was the 67th mayor of Toronto, Ontario, and the first woman to hold that office (beginning in 1991). ... The Hon. ...

In 1993, Harris and other Ontario Greens sought and won a change in the party's constitution allowing for the election of a full-time leader. The party had been nominally led by Katherine Mathewson in the 1990 election, but she held little influence over the campaign or policy questions. Harris and others argued that electing a full-time leader would allow the Green Party to organize more professionally, and present a united message in future campaigns. Harris stood for the leadership, and lost to Frank de Jong. De Jong later supported Harris in his bid to become federal leader, while Harris endorsed de Jong's bid for re-election as provincial leader in 2001.^[7] Katherine Mathewson is a former candidate for political office in Ontario, Canada. ... Frank de Jong (born 1955 in Luther Township, northeast of Arthur, Ontario) is a Canadian politician and environmentalist. ...

Harris was an organizer for the federal Green Party in Toronto for the 1993 election, recruiting seventeen candidates in the area. New legislation brought in before the election required a party to run 50 candidate or suffer de-registration lose its assets. By fielding seventeen candidates in the Toronto region (which then had roughly twenty-two ridings) the Toronto team presented over one-third of the national requirement. Harris stood for election in St. Paul's, and finished sixth. Popular vote map with bar graphs showing seat totals in the provinces and territories PC leader Kim Campbell. ... This article refers to the Canadian electoral district, for other uses see St. ...

He was elected as the first president of the Green Party of Ontario in 2001, and served in that role until moving to the federal arena in 2003.

Author and speaker

Harris has written six books, two of which have been national best-sellers in Canada. He also delivers public speeches on change and leadership, and was forced to miss at least one campaign appearance in the 2004 election to fulfill a speaking engagement.^[8] Association Magazine has ranked him as one of Canada's top speakers. Harris spoke at about fifty international conferences a year before becoming GPC leader, and conducts strategic planning sessions with executive teams on leadership, change, CRM, eLearning, innovation and creating learning organizations. Peter Senge defined a learning organization as human beings cooperating in dynamical systems (as defined in systemics) that are in a state of continuous adaptation and improvement. ...

His second book, The Learning Paradox, was nominated for the National Business Book Award in Canada and appeared on several bestseller lists. In this work, Harris argues that Canadians should continuously embrace new learning in order to possess useable skills for a business world grounded in rapid technological change.^[9] Books for Business ranked it as one of the top-10 business books in North America. Harris was also one of three co-authors of the second edition of The 100 Best Companies to Work for in Canada, which sold over 50,000 copies in Canada. His most recent book, Blindsided!, has been published in over 80 countries.^[10] World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...

According to his business web site, Harris's corporate clients include General Motors, Honeywell and Mobil Chemical Canada Ltd. General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is a United States-based automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ... Honeywell NYSE: HON is a major American multinational corporation that produces electronic control systems and automation equipment. ... Mobil was a major oil company which merged with the Exxon Corporation in 1999 to form ExxonMobil. ...

National leader

2004 campaign

Harris was elected leader of the Green Party of Canada on February 14, 2003, defeating Jason Crummey and John Grogan with over 81% of the votes cast by delegates.^[11] He replaced interim leader Chris Bradshaw, who led the party from 2001 to 2003. The Green Party of Canada is a federal political party in Canada. ... February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jason Crummey was born in Old Perlican, Trinity Bay on the Northeast Coast of Newfoundland. ... John Grogan, 51, has lived and worked in the Robson Valley, B.C. for the past 25 years. ... Christopher John (Chris) Bradshaw (born 1944 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian politician. ...

The party conducted a relatively high-profile campaign in the 2004 election under Harris's leadership, running candidates in all federal ridings for the first time in its history. Harris attempted to shift the GPC away from an exclusively environmentalist message, and frequently described the party as both socially progressive and fiscally conservative.^[12] He also denied that voting for the GPC would cause Conservative candidates to be elected through vote-splitting, arguing that his party had support from across the traditional political spectrum.^[13] On the eve of the election, he predicted that the Greens would win nine seats.^[14]

The 2004 GPC platform, produced by wiki technology called LivingPlatform, emphasized full cost accounting, triple bottom line and the green tax shift.^[15] The party's fiscal policy supported taxing resources rather than incomes, and included increases in gasoline taxes and land taxes. It also included tax cuts on corporate income, which alienated some left-of-centre Greens. The Green Party of Canada Living Platform is a wiki used to employ participatory democracy in the writing of this political partys electoral platform. ... Full cost accounting (FCA) generally refers to the process of collecting and presenting information (costs as well as advantages) for each proposed alternative when a decision is necessary. ... The triple bottom line captures an expanded spectrum of values and criteria for measuring organizational (and societal) success - economic, environmental and social. ... A green tax shift is a fiscal policy which lowers the taxes on income including wages and profit, and raises taxes on consumption, particularly the unsustainable consumption of non-renewable resources. ...

The party received 582,247 votes (4.3%), but failed to elect any candidates. Harris campaigned in Toronto—Danforth and placed fourth against New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton with 2,575 votes (5.4%) -- just 400 votes behind the Conservative candidate. Toronto—Danforth in relation to the other Toronto ridings Toronto—Danforth (formerly Broadview—Greenwood) is a federal and provincial electoral district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. ... The New Democratic Party (NDP) is a political party in Canada with a social democratic philosophy and moderate democratic socialist tendencies. ... The Hon. ...

Criticism and 2004 leadership challenge

Harris's leadership of the Green Party has been controversial. He describes himself as an ecological conservative and eco-capitalist, and attempted to shift the party to the right on a number of issues.^[16] In August 2004, some in the GPC criticized Harris for hiring David Scrymgeour, a former national director of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and aide to Jim Flaherty, as an advisor.^[17] He has also been accused of placing too much authority in the party leadership, while reducing the power of local associations. Eco-capitalism is one of several strategies of the green movement and Green Parties. ... David Scrymgeour is a controversial Canadian political advisor. ... James Michael Jim Flaherty, B.A., LL.B. (born December 30, 1949) is Canadas Minister of Finance. ...

After the 2004 election, Harris was challenged for the party leadership by Tom Manley, a prominent party activist from eastern Ontario. Manley argued that Harris was taking the GPC too far to the right, and was abandoning the party's traditional emphasis on local production in favour of large corporate interests.^[18] Harris won re-election, though by a narrower margin than before.^[19] In 2005, Manley left the Green Party to join the Liberal Party of Canada. Tom Manley (born 1960 in Berwick, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. ... The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada), colloquially known as the Grits (originally Clear Grits), is a Canadian federal political party positioned around the centre of the political spectrum, combining a generally progressive social policy with moderate economics. ...

In June 2005, Richmond Hill city councillor Elio Di Iorio resigned from the GPC's national executive. His resignation letter accused Harris of poor leadership and financial mismanagement, and described him as "socially awkward, control-centric, and in my opinion, somewhat sociopathic".^[20] Some in the party have rejected Di Iorio's comments, while others have concurred. A number of other resignations were tendered by prominent Greens prior to Di Iorio's resignation, with many accusing Harris of mismanaging the party.^[21] Richmond Hill (population 163,000 as of 2005) is a town in York Region north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Elio Di Iorio Elio Di Iorio Elio Di Iorio (born August 10, 1971) is a municipal councillor in Richmond Hill, Ontario. ...

Later in 2005, columnist Murray Dobbin wrote two articles accusing Harris of betraying his party's progressive principles, and of using authoritarian methods to consolidate power. The second article, published in December 2005, noted that four of the party's eleven officers had resigned in protest or were suspended in the previous year, while a number of key positions were allowed to remain vacant. Dobbin also observed that Harris's opponents believe he was responsible for undermining the "Living Platform", ignoring fundraising and policy development, and reducing party democracy generally.^[22]

Harris's supporters have accused Dobbin of conducting a partisan smear campaign, and of ignoring his environmental credentials. Bill Hulet has defended Harris's efforts to reform the party's internal structure, describing the existing system as an "absolute nightmare" because of a consensus policy that gives small minorities the right to override majority decisions.^[23]

2006 campaign

Harris is a candidate in Beaches—East York for the 2006 election. As in 2004, he unsuccessfully called for the Green Party to be included in the nationally televised leadership debates.^[24] Beaches—East York is a political riding in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... The 2006 Canadian federal election (more formally, the 39th General Election) was held on January 23, 2006, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ...

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External links

• Green Party of Canada: Jim Harris
• Jim Harris' business web site
• Election results in Toronto-Danforth, 2004
• CTV bio

Electoral record

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Notes and sources

1. ^  "A sketch of Jim Harris, leader of the Green Party", Canadian Press NewsWire, 25 November 2005.
2. ^  Tim Naumetz, "Greens enjoy upsurge in polls", CanWest News, 13 April 2004, p. 1.
3. ^  Jim Harris profile, Globe and Mail, 2004 federal election.[25]
4. ^  Bruce DeMara, "Greens joins the race -- quirks and all", Toronto Star, 21 August 1990, A9.
5. ^  "St. Andrew-St. Patrick", Toronto Star, 3 September 1990, A7.
6. ^  "City of Toronto Mayor, Councillors", Toronto Star, 7 November 1991, G1.
7. ^  "Re-elect Frank de Jong as Leader of the Green Party of Ontario", web document, 2001. Harris's endorsement reads as follows: "I have only the greatest admiration for Frank de Jong. He is committed to Green Politics, he helps and nurtures people in the movement and has been tireless in building the party to a point where we will run candidates in all 103 ridings in Ontario. I can't think of anyone better qualified to lead the Ontario Greens into the 21st century."
8. ^  "Green leader's day job derails campaign stop", Windsor Star, 11 June 2004, A11.
9. ^  Michael Kane, "Embrace learning, author says", Calgary Herald, 31 October 1998, H1.
10. ^  Jim Harris profile, Globe and Mail.
11. ^  "Jim Harris - New Leader of the Green Party of Canada", Alberta Green, Spring 2003 (Volume 15 Number 1), p. 1. Harris received 437 votes, Grogan 76 and Crummey 24. [26]
12. ^  "Green Party won't pull a Nader, says leader", Edmonton Journal, 29 May 2004, A4.
13. ^  "Greens not quite what the seem", Toronto Star, 14 June 2004, A18.
14. ^  Jonathan Woodward, "Green Party leader hopes to score nine seats today", The Province, 28 June 2004, A6.
15. ^  Green Party of Canada, Living Platform (online document). [27] The "green tax shift" is explained here.
16. ^  Doug Ward, "Fiscal conservative now ecological conservative", Vancouver Sun, 11 June 2004, A5.
17. ^  Bill Curry, "Controversial Tory joins Greens", Vancouver Sun, 20 August 2004, A6.
18. ^  Curry, "Controversial Tory"
19. ^  Draft Minutes, Ninth General Convention of the Green Party of Canada, 29 August 2004. Harris received 524 votes, against 352 for Manley and 74 for Grogan. [28]
20. ^  Elio di Iorio, resignation letter, 2005. [29]
21. ^  See for instance Hayley Easto, resignation letter, 2005 [30], Lise Racicot resigns GPC Council, 2005-06-10[31], Andy Shadrack resigns GPC Committee, 2005-06-15[32], Kathryn Holloway resigns GPC Council, committees and nomination, 2005-06-08 [33], Michael Oddy resigns GPC Shadow Cabinet, 2005-10-24, [34]. Some have described the resignations as provoking a "crisis" in the Green Party. See for instance this site, produced by Wiki technology, which is critical of Harris's leadership.
22. ^  Murray Dobbin, "Green Party Blues", The Walrus, July/August 2005 and Murray Dobbin, "Why the Greens aren't very Green", The Tyee, 16 December 2005. [35]
23. ^  Bill Hulet, review of "Green Party Blues", GreenPartyReview.ca, , 18 July 2005. [36]
24. ^  "Greens seeing red over televised election debates", Toronto Star, 4 December 2005, 04:50 report. [37]

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