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Greens face uphill battle, even in B.C., say experts
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Sep 15, 2008 09:43am |
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| News Date | Sunday, September 14, 2008 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | VICTORIA -- A dethroned B.C. Green Party leader once called the party's powerful B.C. environment wing the "tie-dyed Mafia."
Party delegates debated banning cell phones from their convention to limit their exposure to harmful waves and another party member illegally sold a frozen organic chicken at the B.C. legislature to protest a new meat law regulating back-country butchers.
But ask members why their candidates can't get elected, even in the granola belt of British Columbia, and they'll launch into a political science lecture about the unfairness of the electoral system that only rewards candidates with the most votes.
The recent inclusion of federal Green Leader Elizabeth May in the televised leaders' debate as part of the Oct. 14 federal election campaign has the party seeing future gains despite the workings of the current electoral system.
The debate has the potential to show Canadians the Greens are more than a one-issue party, say party officials. At least they hope so.
But winning seats beyond the one tenuously held by West Vancouver MP Blair Wilson, who recently joined the party to become Canada's first Green MP, remains a difficult quest. |
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