The Green Party of Canada has elected a new leader.
I honestly hadn't been paying much attention to the Green Party's leadership convention - it's been pretty low key, but I think the new leader might be the "shot in the arm" the party needs to break into parliament. She sounds like she's got lots of experience making herself heard on parliament hill - both from within and outside government positions.
On the radio, I heard part of her acceptance speech, and her best quip was about "being available for scrums - since Stephen Harper isn't available, people should have some extra time up there".
The Green Party is still very much a "second string" party in this country, but it's nice to see a party stepping forward and calling the "mainstream" parties out on some of their dishonest crap. (e.g. The current CPC government's whiny claim that Kyoto targets are "impossible" - without so much as giving lip service to trying - is no better than the repeated inaction under verbage approach of preceding Liberal governments on that front)
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She looks to be a very interesting person. One cautionary note however is the fact that she was involved with Mulroneys government as a senior policy advisor. I will be watching this one closely to see if she has any strong right wingnut ideologies lurking about, but at this point she comes across quite well.
SB
True, but there's a few clues that she's not in the "wingnut" side of things:
1. Former head of Sierra Club. If anything that puts her firmly in the "looney left" camp.
2. She was a member of the PC party at one time, but when the merger with the Alliance happened, she found her views marginalized.
Based on this, along with what I've seen of the Green Party policy platform, it would appear that she is relatively moderate.
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