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CAW Atlantic endorses Elizabeth May

Author: Chrystal Ocean (Green)

9 Oct

Announcement from the CNW Group, October 8th. Just came up on my Google News Reader a couple of hours ago.

Les Holloway, CAW Atlantic Canada Area Director, announced today that the union is throwing its support behind Green Party leader Elizabeth May, in the Central Nova riding….

“It is critical that we do not re-elect a Harper Conservative government that will continue with its failed right-wing policies which have already cost our country hundreds of thousands of good paying manufacturing jobs,” said Holloway.

Holloway stated, “This ideology that you give everybody their taxes back, cut government spending to do it by deregulating everything and let the market take care of itself has cost us dearly in both life and economic well being, and it has indeed put us on the same course as the United States.”

“Elizabeth May is an extremely intelligent and articulate woman and will do us proud as a Member of Parliament for Central Nova. She cares about what this unbalanced economy is doing to residents of Nova Scotia and elsewhere,” said Holloway….

That’s got to be a valuable endorsement!

Filed under: Chrystal Ocean (Green), Green, Local Campaigns, Nova Scotia

4 Responses for "CAW Atlantic endorses Elizabeth May"

Whiskey Echo (N. Van, unaffiliated Canadian nationalist) October 9th, 2008 at 4:36 pm 1
Very valuable, if they put their volunteers into the effort, and try to push the NDP voters in Central Nova into going Green instead.
H. Moreton October 9th, 2008 at 6:45 pm 2
In a thinly disguised plot to game the system, Dion and May agreed on mutual support with the Liberals not having a candidate in Central Nova and May supporting the Liberals elsewhere. Is this what democracy is really about? I wonder what the Liberals in Central Nova think and I wonder what the NDP supporters in Central Nova think about the CAW supporting May?
Peter M October 10th, 2008 at 8:22 am 3
If any further proof of the abject political ineptitude of the CAW were needed, this would be it.
Stefan October 13th, 2008 at 9:56 am 4
There is nothing undemocratic about the Liberal and Green leaders making a deal not to run candidates in each other’s riding. This has been done many times before, such as when Harper was elected leader of the Canadian Alliance and the Liberals gave him a similar amnesty. The point is that Dion is conceding that the first-past-the-post system favours the established political parties. If the Greens get more votes than the Bloc QuÃ©bÃ©cois this time and still don’t have an MP while the Bloc has 50, then hopefully people will get a clue. Better yet why not elect the most thoughtful and forward-thinking of the federal leaders. I challenge you to look seriously at the Green platform: you will find it is more logical and cohesive than any other party’s.

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