Juno News - What's the point of the Green Party of Canada？

00:00:00.000 with monday's news that elizabeth may is stepping down as leader of the green party of canada i

00:00:14.160 suddenly find myself nostalgic for her early years as leader of that party back in 2006

00:00:20.480 that was when she first became leader of the greens and it was very different times back then

00:00:25.960 just 13 years ago very different tone a very different approach to the issues was until a

00:00:32.040 couple years after that in 2008 that stephan dion ran as leader of the liberal party during the

00:00:37.560 election on the green shift one of the first times that a non-green party party actually put an

00:00:43.840 environmental issue front and center in their platform now of course the green shift was

00:00:48.400 destroyed it was decimated no one supported it and they talked about attacks on everything and how

00:00:53.400 that wouldn't be palatable to the canadian people now you move forward to today and it's basically

00:00:58.920 a carbon tax is the same idea and somehow we're all supposed to accept it and it's doug ford and

00:01:04.900 jason kenny and scott moe who are the villains for going to the supreme court of canon saying hold on

00:01:09.080 a second we're not so sure this tax on everything is a good idea what happened what changed then back

00:01:14.960 in 2006 you had elizabeth may stepping forward with her little party that could saying we're going to

00:01:20.520 stand up for the environment we're going to stand up for green issues we're going to talk about climate

00:01:24.560 change and you look at the election results you see the number of people who voted for the party

00:01:28.660 how she struggled to even get one seat and she's still struggling to just get the three seats she 0.99

00:01:33.000 has and you go okay that makes sense caring about the environment and these matters sure it's

00:01:39.120 something that some people care about to have a green party front and center as standing pretty much

00:01:44.700 for that single issue kind of makes sense that they would be a fringe party relegated to the fringes

00:01:50.300 now obviously what the green party hopes will happen now that elizabeth may is leaving the 0.98

00:01:55.200 leadership is they'll get someone new to sort of refresh the party perhaps some young charismatic

00:02:00.140 individual to fire up all those people who took to the streets to the climate strike rally and maybe

00:02:05.920 then next election that will get them a whole bunch of new seats and they'll rise up higher and higher

00:02:10.460 through the ranks replacing the ndp or what have you that's probably what they what they fantasize

00:02:16.060 about being able to do with their party hold on a second though a bit of a problem with that

00:02:21.100 because there is already another green party in canada it's called the federal liberals

00:02:26.500 justin trudeau and gerald butts and katherine mckenna they don't stop going on about climate change

00:02:34.180 day in day out it's all you hear them harp about justin trudeau

00:02:38.160 in that first press conference he gave after being re-elected the election was on a monday on

00:02:42.920 wednesday he was before the people before the cameras and he said nine times ten times climate

00:02:48.880 change and affordability they are the top two issues for canadians climate change and affordability in

00:02:53.960 that order he put climate change first gerald butts in the few sort of official public pronouncements

00:02:59.380 he has made other than his his tweets that he puts out there the needlessly divisive twitter feed

00:03:05.040 of his in the public letters he's put out there stating his resignation back from the prime

00:03:10.120 minister's office the public letter stating he was back and he is returning to the campaign team

00:03:14.800 he talked a lot about the things they want to do the achievements he was proud of the only issue that

00:03:19.600 he named singularly was climate change it really does seem like the federal liberals are actually a

00:03:26.480 climate activist party run by these core people and then the other things they're doing the other

00:03:31.800 issues that they're dealing with renegotiating nafta tweaking the tax code and so forth they're

00:03:36.920 just doing that because well you have to and you're in government so you got to come up with a

00:03:40.880 few other things other than climate change zealotry to do but the climate change agenda front and center

00:03:46.540 the driving issue more than even back in the 2015 campaign trail it's really been interesting to see

00:03:53.800 this pivot in direction in federal politics there are a whole lot of things the federal government

00:03:58.940 is supposed to be looking after you've got the federal health accord structure you've got foreign 0.98

00:04:03.980 affairs you've got interprovincial relations oh no you don't hear about that so much you hear so much

00:04:10.180 non-stop about climate change really has me nostalgic really has me missing the good old days the early

00:04:16.640 years of elizabeth may when she was pretty much the only party leader who was harping on about this issue

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Juno News - November 05, 2019

What's the point of the Green Party of Canada？

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