Greens need Elizabeth May to leave

The Greens cannot move forward with May remaining in Parliament. There’s a reason why Stephen Harper and Thomas Mulcair stepped down as party leaders and left Ottawa after their time was up.

Green Party of Canada former leader Elizabeth May, pictured at the party’s leadership convention in Ottawa on Oct. 3, 2020. Paradoxically, the party might not have any seats at all without May’s iron grip on her riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands. The power of personality trumps all in politics and that can go either way, writes Geoff Russ. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GEOFF RUSS

December 2, 2021

Large swathes of British Columbia submerged in days of rainstorms. It caused mayhem and horror for people and animals who lived where the water accumulated. The Fraser Valley will physically recover in weeks. It will take years for those displaced to recover from the memory of their hom...

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