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GREEN PARTY LEADER TO TAKE ON PETER MACKAY IN NEXT ELECTION

The federal budget will be coming out today for 2007 and we are all anxious to see what it has in store for us. Many view this as an election budget because many see us heading to the polls again very soon. But enough about that for now. I will have more on this later. Right now I just wanted to comment on federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May's intentions in the next election.

She was just involved in a byelection in Ontario where she came in second after the Liberal candidate and garnered about 25% of the vote. Needless to say this is pretty impressive and eludes to the fact the in the next federal election there is a great possibility that the Green Party could win their first seat in the House of Commons and have a great increase in the popular vote. So what does Elizabeth May do after finishing second in the byelection, she announces that in the next federal election she will be running in the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova. This seat currently belongs to federal Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay, and it will continue to belong to him long after the next election.

The Central Nova riding has long been a Conservative safe haven and its list of MPs representing it has included former Mulroney cabinet minister, and Peter MacKay's father, Elmer MacKay, Brian Mulroney himself, and now current Harper cabinet minister Peter MacKay. May's comment that the polls may not necessarily be in her favour is a vast understatement. You would think that finally, when the Green Party is on the verge of making a democratic breakthrough, the leader of said party would run in a riding that she at least had a chance at.

The Liberals have eluded that they may not run a candidate in the riding to try and unseat MacKay but even after his mistakes in the House of Commons this year there is absolutely no danger of him losing his seat. The next election may be upon us so we will have to wait and see how this plays out. But I will tell you one thing, the first Green seat in the country will not be Central Nova.

- DCM

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Anonymous said…
I didn't know about that, and that central Nova had so many profile politicians coming from it.... and May seems to be like a pretty big tool to me.
Fave line? "The Central Nova seat belongs to Peter MacKay and will continue to long after the election is over"... or whatever you had said along those lines.
Sun Jun 17, 01:49:00 pm
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