Anti-Semitic fringe element threatens the Green Party’s very existence

Now is the time, with the convention set to begin, for the membership of the party and its supporters—those who have spent years volunteering for the party, on campaigns, in meetings and more—to refuse to be silent.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May originally sponsored a resolution against the Jewish National Fund of Canada, but later, went on to say she would fight against it.The Hill Times Photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY PAUL ESTRIN

August 7, 2016

When I was the president of the Green Party, I dreamt of many things, but never that fringe elements who peddle hatred and discrimination would appear to be given free rein, tarnishing the party’s reputation that, at its core, is supposed to fight those very things. I never imagined that Elizabet...

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