Dear Editor,
If any of your readers are small “c” conservatives, the coming election is the one where they’ll want to vote for the Green Party of Canada.
Contrary to what other parties are claiming, the Green Party is not a party of the centre-left. In the Green Party, there is no east or west, there is no left or right. The Green Party is not a party with a core ideology (but increasingly the other parties aren’t either); it is a party with core principles that govern its policies.
If a conservative voted for the Conservative Party of Canada in 2011 they were promised a triple “e” Senate. Did they get one? No. First they were given no new Senate appointments, then a super abundance of Conservative Senators and now they are being promised there will be no more appointments – forcing the provinces to shoulder the problem and show the leadership the prime minister lacks.
There are ways to reform the Senate, to make it equal, effective and elected, without constitutional change. But this will require an honest effort to create a non-partisan Senate and to meet with the provincial leaders and negotiate a solution.
Only Elizabeth May is willing and able to take on such a task. Get your Canada back, vote Green.
David Macdonald, Burnaby
