With climate change a top concern heading into next month's Canadian electi...
- With climate change a top concern heading into next month’s Canadian election and mainstream candidates offering little inspiration, Green Party leader Elizabeth May could be poised for a breakthrough.
The Greens are sitting at around 11% public support, more than triple the 3.4% the party received in the 2015 election when May, an effervescent 65-year-old, was the only legislator to win a seat. Public opinion surveys suggest her party might win up to 10 seats in the House of Commons. “People are experiencing the climate emergency not as an environmental issue, but as an immediate security threat. And that changes attitudes,” said May, who represents a constituency in the Pacific province of British Columbia.
The Greens are nipping at the heels of their closest rivals, the left-wing New Democrats, who are struggling under new leader Jagmeet Singh. Trudeau and Scheer are running neck-in-neck nationally, but Liberals have an edge in a greater number of Canada’s 338 individual parliamentary ridings. She wants a ban on future crude oil pipelines and to block the planned expansion of the Trans Mountain Line from Alberta to British Columbia, which the Trudeau government bought for C$4.5 billion last year.
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