Strange bedfellows
If I lived in Central Nova or Saint-Laurent-Cartierville I would be seriously pissed off.
It certainly is undemocratic to strategically place or not place candidates in ridings for the purposes of creating political alliances. The constituents of those ridings have the right to choose who they will elect to represent them, no one else. Forcing voters to propel party policy by denying them a candidate is W-R-O-N-G.
This should serve as a warning sign. Would you want to vote for someone who thought so little of your right to a democratic vote? I certainly wouldn't.
Her public statements so far have consisted largely of passive-aggressive statements about how the other parties "lacked maturity" if they weren't willing to make a political deal with the Green Party. Boo-hoo Jack Layton won't return her calls! Well, I wouldn't either if I heard her talking that way about me.
Out of curiosity I went to Elizabeth May's nomination meeting in Central Nova last Tuesday with with a Green friend of mine. I went there with an open mind, but I wasn't particularly impressed by EM. I found her speech something less than sincere (in which she claimed several times that she was not there to run against anyone and that there were more important things than social justice). Today only confirmed her disregard for social justice.
On that line, there is also the issue of her rather contentious and condescending views on a woman's right to choose. She seems to think that whether we should return to Therapeutic Abortions (when a woman has to ask a panel of doctors to approve an abortion under the condition that her health or life is in danger) is open for debate. Ok, so we're all entitled to our opinions, but after today I wouldn't trust Elizabeth May to place legislature over her personal opinions on what is right for her constituents and, as a national leader, for me.
It certainly is undemocratic to strategically place or not place candidates in ridings for the purposes of creating political alliances. The constituents of those ridings have the right to choose who they will elect to represent them, no one else. Forcing voters to propel party policy by denying them a candidate is W-R-O-N-G.
This should serve as a warning sign. Would you want to vote for someone who thought so little of your right to a democratic vote? I certainly wouldn't.
Her public statements so far have consisted largely of passive-aggressive statements about how the other parties "lacked maturity" if they weren't willing to make a political deal with the Green Party. Boo-hoo Jack Layton won't return her calls! Well, I wouldn't either if I heard her talking that way about me.
Out of curiosity I went to Elizabeth May's nomination meeting in Central Nova last Tuesday with with a Green friend of mine. I went there with an open mind, but I wasn't particularly impressed by EM. I found her speech something less than sincere (in which she claimed several times that she was not there to run against anyone and that there were more important things than social justice). Today only confirmed her disregard for social justice.
On that line, there is also the issue of her rather contentious and condescending views on a woman's right to choose. She seems to think that whether we should return to Therapeutic Abortions (when a woman has to ask a panel of doctors to approve an abortion under the condition that her health or life is in danger) is open for debate. Ok, so we're all entitled to our opinions, but after today I wouldn't trust Elizabeth May to place legislature over her personal opinions on what is right for her constituents and, as a national leader, for me.