XPost: can.politics   
   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   On 12/6/2014 9:57 AM, Dave Smith wrote:   
   > It is stuff like this that reminds us why there is so little support for the   
   > Green party and why we had almost had a chance to forget who Elizabeth May   
   is.   
      
   She's a WOMAN, 'Smith' . . .  that would be the first reason you would choose   
   to malign her.   
   She is also the first Green Party Member of Parliament in Canada.  That would   
   also irk you because she's obviously more accomplished than you are.   
      
   The party broke 1% of the popular vote in the 2004 federal election, when it   
   received 4.3% and qualified for federal funding. Its support has ranged between   
   3.1% and 14% since the 2006 federal election.   
      
   In the 2008 federal election, the Green Party of Canada was invited to the   
   debates for the first time and achieved a high mark of 6.8% of the popular   
   vote.   
      
   On May 2, 2011, Green Party leader Elizabeth May became the first elected Green   
   Party MP to sit in the House of Commons. She won the riding of Saanich—Gulf   
   Islands in coastal British Columbia.[4] In winning her seat, May also became   
   one of the few Greens worldwide to be elected in a federal, single-seat   
   election.   
      
   On December 13, 2013 Thunder Bay—Superior North MP Bruce Hyer, who had left   
   the   
   NDP in 2012 to sit as an independent after breaking party lines to vote in   
   favour of a repeal of the Long Gun Registry, joined the party, resulting in a   
   record two-member caucus in parliament.   
      
   She just introduced a Bill on expanding awareness and testing for Lyme disease   
   - a bill which is predicted TO PASS.   
      
   That's who Elizabeth May is.   Ya stupid jerk.   
      
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