Green party leader Elizabeth May, departed from the discussions of the heads will be televised later this week, took to the airwaves in a national broadcast Sunday night which saw a panel of journalists grill him on the platform and the electoral aspirations of his party.
"We are serious." "We are pragmatic about the issues that matter to Canadians," can be said in his remarks. "And they do not find a better platform for any of the other political parties."
May has invited several television stations, CHCH in Ontario and CHEK in British Columbia Colombia, and the other four heads of major party political debate, but only the Green Chief agreed.
She was interviewed by journalists from the Toronto Sun, Toronto Star and the Hamilton Spectator in a half-hour program called Elizabeth May, For the Record.
After may confirmed that "it's election is subject to win seats" for his party, journalists asked him where she thought that the Greens could make the elusive breakthrough asked and capture a constituency to the House of Commons.
May replied that she thinks that it is current neck-and-neck with conservative candidate in the riding of British Columbia Colombia of Saanich-Gulf Islands Gary Lunn and maintained Greens also have a chance for Vancouver Centre, Yukon and the districts of Guelph and Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Ontario.
She then swat away sharp investigations of journalists, which asked him to account for 2 million per year than his party receives public funding to all the main political parties, as well as to explain why voters should choose green if they have almost no chance of forming a Government.
May, is to the left, supporters at a campaign in Halifax Saturday gathering. Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press"The only way a citizen in the Canada may waste their vote is not to vote," it can be said. "Canadians are so disillusioned frankly an existing political parties in Parliament." … This is a very clear message to vote Green. ?
She noted that the NDP under the former leader Tommy Douglas never formed Government but nonetheless forced the creation of the health care system to the Canada.
On the question of financing of elections, may said federal funding for political parties is "a public plan fair" - and, for a total cost of less than $ 30 million per year, step in line with the cost to the taxpayers by allowing deductions of tax on donations of individual parties policies.
The Conservatives have assailed the public-financing law and attempted unsuccessfully to repeal it.
The consortium of broadcasters hold leaders debates chose to exclude may on the grounds that the Greens did not have a member in the last legislature.
Then, the Federal Court of Appeal declined to hear a court from the decision of the consortium may challenge before the first debate, in English, on Tuesday.
The Greens did not get a seat on the federal election of 2008, but has attracted nearly one million votes. The Bloc Québécois 1.4 million votes he won 49 seats, in comparison.
Perhaps submission for inclusion in the debates was supported by two former Prime Ministers - Joe Clark and Paul Martin - as ombudsman of the SRC Kirk LaPointe, former Chief of the Department of elections, Jean-Pierre Kingsley and fair to the Canada.
"Our system allows you to elect a representative in a district with as little as 35 to 40% of the vote," it can be said Sunday, the electoral structure underlying the difficult situation of the her party. "60 To 65 percent of voters in that district have no representation and is anti-democratic."
Four other party leaders national - Conservative leader Stephen Harper, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, new democratic party leader and leader of Bloc Québécois, Gilles Duceppe - will be beat you in a debate in Ottawa on Tuesday English and a French debate Wednesday.
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