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Survivor: Canada

By Dave Hodson | October 30, 2007

Is it just me, or is this beginning to sound like an episode of Survivor?

Green Leader Elizabeth May says a dinner date with NDP Leader Jack Layton might provide the spark for a parliamentary plot to topple the minority Conservatives.

When the two leaders sit down, May is hoping for “an open-ended discussion about what we could maybe do to ensure that Harper loses the election.

“That’s the kind of conversation I had with (Liberal Leader) Stéphane Dion. I think it would be more effective if it was all three of us talking about it. Or four, including (Bloc Québécois Leader) Gilles Duceppe,” May said in an interview yesterday.

It appears that Elizabeth May is desperately running around trying to make deals with anybody who will listen, to find a way to vote the Conservatives ‘off the island’.  She even had to purchase the dinner with Jack Layton at a charity auction to get the chance to speak with him.

Unfortunately for Lizzy, it’s not the politicians that get to vote other politicians out of office, but rather the citizens of Canada, who at this moment favour the Conservatives more than any other party, and Stephen Harper more than any other party leader.

Rather than playing games to make deals with other parties, perhaps she should focus on her own party policies and get elected on her own merits?  With all of her games, I’m wondering just what she stands for, other than trying to oust the Conservatives and win a seat of her own?

Perhaps Lizzy would feel more comfortable in the Liberal party?

Cross-posted at Western Standard.

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2 Responses to “Survivor: Canada”

  1. Bob in Ontario Says:
    October 30th, 2007 at 9:34 pm

    Does this mean that Jack! is answering her ‘phone calls now? ‘Cause he wasn’t for quite a while.

    Then, again, it might just be more wishful thinking on her part. =P

  2. Thucydides Says:
    October 30th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    The Green Party is trying to carve a place in the political landscape, but since the NDP, Bloc and the current incarnation of the Liberals are all trying to occupy the same spot on the political spectrum, I doubt the Greens have the intellectual or financial horsepower to make a real impression on the voters.

    If Elizabeth May were an engaging personality, she might get elected on personal charisma, but that isn’t in the cards, either.

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