Green Party debacle has done irreparable damage to its chances across the country

Annamie Paul could survive by recanting the threats tweeted by her former staffer. But it is hard to see how the internal strife is going to do anything but consign the Greens to the scrap heap of political history.

Green Party Leader Annamie Paul, pictured March 11, 2021, on the Hill. One of the most important jobs of a leader is to keep their caucus happy. In Ms. Paul’s case, she only had three members to worry about and last week she lost one of them, writes Sheila Copps. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

June 21, 2021

Internal party battles are the ugliest part of politics. And when they spill out into the open, everyone gets hurt. The current debacle in the Green Party may fatally damage the leadership of Annamie Paul. She could survive by recanting the threats tweeted by her former staffer. But it is hard to...

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