[10] In more recent municipal elections, he has been a supporter of OneCity Vancouver, a progressive civic party of which his wife is a founding member.

[11] On 8 October 2018, Demers was the guest on the popular interview based podcast WTF with Marc Maron.

In the Marc Maron podcast Demers talks about his political beliefs and his early affiliation as a teenager with a small Marxist activist group in Vancouver.

His commitment to the group was such that he initially decided to forgo going to university and instead get a job in a lighting factory where he hoped to increase the political consciousness of his fellow workers.

He admitted however that the aims of the organization were somewhat vague and that the efforts to raise the consciousness of fellow workers were mostly met with bemusement.

"[19] He goes on to mention environmental issues, inequality and unclean drinking water on indigenous reserves as examples.