‘So Much Emotion’: Elizabeth May Stumps for a Repeat

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‘So Much Emotion’: Elizabeth May Stumps for a Repeat

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QUOTE: "The Green Party co-leader says a ‘fear factor’ is darkening moods of voters in her Saanich-Gulf Islands riding."

EXCERPT: "“There are many things I want to accomplish before I decide I’m going to retire, and I want to keep working,” she said.

Her priorities include fixing the health-care system; working to resolve Indigenous issues in the riding, including the failure to observe the treaties signed in the 1850s when James Douglas was governor of Vancouver Island; better protecting the Salish Sea; and limiting the parking of freighters in the area.

If the election results in one of the other parties needing support from Greens to form government, May said she would proceed one vote at a time and make support conditional on introducing proportional representation and taking real climate action.

While she would keep options open, she did rule out supporting the Conservatives. “Clearly we don’t regard Pierre Poilievre as fit to be prime minister,” she said.

For people in Saanich-Gulf Islands who want to keep the Conservatives out, Green remains a good choice, she said. “Every vote that goes to a Liberal or an NDPer in Saanich-Gulf Islands is only an assist to the Conservatives.”

So is she advocating strategic voting? Not at all, she said. Wherever they are, people should vote for what they want, but “in Saanich-Gulf Islands, that’s just the truth.”"