Elizabeth May & Calgary’s Green Candidates

gordon mcdowell — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:01:28 +0000

Elizabeth May joined Green candidates, volunteers and curious Calgarians for a a fundraiser at La Joie De Vivre in Inglewood.

Local Green candidates gave quick introductions, including Brett Spencer of Calgary South-East.

Elizabeth May then spoke on a wide variety of subjects, including the Green Party’s steady popularity, vote abandonment, and how Harper’s autocratic style of government puts Canadian democracy in danger.

The following video is an 11 minute summary of Elizabeth May’s entire speech and Q&A session. You can click here to watch extended (53 minute) coverage, or click on the summary video’s “YouTube Annotation Links” as they appear, if you’d like to hear more about one particular topic.

00:24	Our strong support is not a protest vote. Adding “none of the above” below “Green Party” on polling ballots has little impact.
01:38	We do not elect a Prime Minister. We elect 308 members of Parliament, who could have picked someone other than Stephen Harper to be PM.
02:51	Greens are different because we do not pursue political expediency. All of our policies are focused on what is right in the long term.
03:44	The positive impact on civility and democracy electing even a single Green MP in Canada will have.
05:22	Green Party policy on nuclear power, and how Greens respond to emerging technologies.
07:20	Stephen Harper is gutting Environmental Impact Assessment. He is not making it more efficient.
09:44	How can Greens more effectively communicate to Canadians our fiscally conservative platform, and that we are not a single issue party?

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Elizabeth May & Calgary’s Green Candidates