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Elizabeth May, power-broker

It’s time for people in this town to sit up and take notice of Elizabeth May and the Green Party. She has brought the Greens to the doorstep of respectability, and could well cross the threshold to become a serious player should the October election return a minority House — or even a hung Parliament.

Consider, for openers, her poll numbers. In a January EKOS poll for iPolitics, the Greens were running at 9 per cent nationally, and nearly 17 per cent in British Columbia, where they’ve been as high as 21 per cent in November.

Those are real numbers — especially on Vancouver Island, where May now holds the lone Green seat in B.C. But if those numbers hold she’ll likely have company from the Island, which is getting two of B.C.’s six new seats, to give it nine out of 42 from the province in the new 338-seat House. And the Greens have been trending on the Lower Mainland and the B.C. interior as well.

Then there’s her job approval rating, which at 51 per cent nationally in the January EKOS poll puts her in a statistical dead heat with the NDP’s Tom Mulcair at 52 per cent, followed by Justin Trudeau at 45 per cent, and Stephen Harper at 39 per cent.

READ MORE: http://www.ipolitics.ca/2015/02/10/elizabeth-may-power-broker/