If only hugs were votes: Against the backdrop of widespread climate concern, how could the Greens not gain substantial ground?

“Mother Earth is here,” a Green party supporter declared as Green Leader Elizabeth May walked into the Crystal Garden, at the Victoria Conference Centre, before election results for most of the country started to flow on election night. First-past-the-post fosters strategic voting for the lesser of...

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Published inMaclean's (Toronto) Vol. 132; no. 11; pp. 35 - 69
Main Author Kingston, Anne
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto Rogers Media 01.12.2019
St. Joseph Communications
Subjects
Canada
Climate change
Debates
Elections
Electoral reform
Emissions
Environmental activists
Environmental policy
Fossil fuels
Islands
Political activism
Political activity
Political aspects
Political leadership
Political parties
Canada
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Summary:“Mother Earth is here,” a Green party supporter declared as Green Leader Elizabeth May walked into the Crystal Garden, at the Victoria Conference Centre, before election results for most of the country started to flow on election night. First-past-the-post fosters strategic voting for the lesser of two evils, or, as May liked to put it, “the evil of two lessers.” There are sections on shifting to a “green economy” and ending fossil fuel reliance, others on renewing the “social contract” via an initiative that includes universal child care and pharmacare, a guaranteed living income, and free post-secondary tuition. Yet the mindset exists. [...]very recently, it was hard to take the Green party, or Elizabeth May, seriously,” Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson wrote in September.
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ISSN:0024-9262
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