Globe and Mail (Toronto), May 3 2011
Elizabeth May asked voters in her adopted riding to make history. And
on Monday, voters in Saanich-Gulf Islands elected Canada’s first Green Party MP.Elizabeth May asked voters in her adopted riding to make history. And
The Green Party Leader moved to the riding almost two years ago, hoping to make a breakthrough in a riding that has rarely sent a non-conservative candidate to Ottawa. The beneficiary of vote splitting among centre-left candidates, Ms. May was able to coalesce those votes – and then some.
“I stand here today as the first elected Green Member of Parliament in Canadian history,” Ms. May told a cheering crowd. She said she must now prove that a single MP can make a difference on the Hill. “Today we proved that Canadians want change in politics.”
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