May Be Good

Lending more credibility and renown to the Green Party of Canada - Elizabeth May has been chosen as leader with over 60% of the vote on the final ballot. May was the founding Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada. She has written several books on environmental topics, and although sometimes I disagree on some hardline environmental issues she bites down on, this turns me even more to support the Green Party. I used to be a soft supporter largely thinking they were the best of a bad lot. Now, it may actually be a workable solution to some serious political bullshit in Canada. And maybe we'll get off the pot on some of the Kyoto issues which are being ignored. I met Elizabeth one time while trying to get involved in the Sydney Tar Ponds cleanup. We later moved away from the Sydney area and back to Ontario (like that's not changing one pollutant for another but that's another story) when it seemed that I was getting more ill and the cleanup was not progressing. This has to be one of the best things to have happened in Canadian Politics since the first time the Lie-berals got kicked out of power in the '80s. Well done, Elizabeth. Now sic 'em. Ottawa won't know what hit 'em. "Unlimited economic growth is the mentality of a cancer cell." - Elizabeth May, August 26, 2006