Elizabeth May blames electoral system for lack of cooperation to defeat Stephen Harper
Liberals and New Democrats are deceiving themselves, says Green Leader Elizabeth May.
“I believe that both the Liberals and the New Democratic Party are suffering from the all-too-typical delusions of political parties,” May told the Straight in a phone interview.
A few days before MPs returned to Ottawa today (January 26) for the last sitting of Parliament before this year’s federal election, May said that Liberals and New Democrats think “that they can succeed in the first-past-the-post system, win a majority government, and not have to deal with the other parties”.
The Saanich-Gulf Islands MP was in the Lower Mainland on January 22 for a speaking event at SFU, and the launch of scientist Lynne Quarmby’s campaign as Green candidate for the new Burnaby North-Seymour riding.
While on her way up Burnaby Mountain on that day, Canada’s first elected Green MP talked at length about her past and ongoing attempts to forge electoral cooperation among opponents of the ruling Conservative Party.
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