Heard On The Hill

Former Green leadership hopeful Dimitri Lascaris backs out of contest, calls for May to step away from process

Plus, the University of Ottawa has set up a new entrance scholarship in honour of the late Ontario Senator Josée Forest-Niesing, and professor Donald Savoie has a new book out this month.

Lawyer and eco-advocate Dimitri Lascaris, left, and Green Party MP and parliamentary leader in the House Elizabeth May. Lascaris says that, in his opinion, 'the time has come for Elizabeth to part the scene—gracefully if possible—and to leave ample space to the next leader to chart a new path for the Green Party of Canada.'Photograph courtesy of Twitter, The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

May 25, 2022

Following what he describes as a “period of exceptional internal strife” within the Green Party of Canada, lawyer and eco-socialist Dimitri Lascaris recently made the decision not to run in the party's leadership contest, calling for Green Party MP and called parliamentary leade...

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