Time for May to get tough with the Liberals

Elizabeth May now has an opportunity to finally put the interests of the Green Party first. But to do it, she needs to end both her friendship with the Liberals and her war with the Conservatives.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, pictured March 6, 2019, arriving at the House Justice Committee on Parliament Hill.The Hill Times photographs Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

April 15, 2019

OAKVILLE, ONT.—Nineteenth century British statesman Lord Palmerston once declared, “England has no eternal friends, England has no perpetual enemies, England has only eternal and perpetual interests." And just like Palmerston’s England, political parties too have perpetual, eternal interests ...

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