Campaign Blog - Day 29
Blog | Elizabeth May | Tuesday, 01 Sep 2015Fabulous rally tonight in Halifax. After spending the whole day on Air Canada flights from Vancouver Island to Nova Scotia, we were greeted by a packed house! The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic was...
Campaign Blog -- Day 28
Blog | Elizabeth May | Monday, 31 Aug 2015Knocking on doors I am hearing a question I just cannot answer – “why are the other parties not talking about climate change?” I cannot answer for them. It is surrealistic. All summer long we have...
Campaign blog - Day 27
Blog | Elizabeth May | Monday, 31 Aug 2015Today, as ferocious winds tore across Vancouver Island and the lower mainland, and huge downpours made a mockery of the months long drought, I thought of the devastation of Katrina. The lessons from...
Campaign Blog - Days 25 and 26
Blog | Elizabeth May | Saturday, 29 Aug 2015My blogging fell by the way-side in the avalanche of activities on days 25 and 26 of the marathon election campaign. With town hall meetings in the evening, canvassing and traveling between ridings...
Campaign Blog – Day 24
Blog | Elizabeth May | Thursday, 27 Aug 2015We had a media-filled today with our statement on hydraulic fracturing. As with so many of the fossil fuel emitting projects on the table, fracking is not a job-creator. We can call this promise of...
Campaign Blog - Day 23
Blog | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 26 Aug 2015We had a great day launching our plan for a national housing strategy in Vancouver. A bunch of Green candidates and team headed over from Vancouver Island on the 7 am ferry as we had a training...
Campaign Blog - Day 22
Blog | Elizabeth May | Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015Another day, another debate cancelled. The “Up for Debate” coalition (including Amnesty International, Oxfam, YWCA, Native Women’s Association of Canada, Canadian Labour Congress, Council of...
Campaign Blog - Day 21
Blog | Elizabeth May | Monday, 24 Aug 2015Today I campaigned in three ridings on southern Vancouver Island. My own as well as in Cowichan Malahat Langford for Fran Hunt-Jinouchi and in Victoria with Jo-Ann Roberts. What a dynamic team. The...
Campaign Blog – Day 20
Blog | Elizabeth May | Saturday, 22 Aug 2015It’s hard to imagine the sloppiness of Conservative staff. In the tight bubble around Stephen Harper every event is planned to the last detail... except for the announcement of $15 million to the...
Campaign Blog - Day 19
Blog | Elizabeth May | Saturday, 22 Aug 2015Earlier this week, I swore out my affidavit to the National Energy Board (NEB) to support the many reports and exhibits I was submitting to the Kinder Morgan hearings. The deadline was Thursday for...
