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Holy fuckGreen Party won't ban members from trying to reopen abortion debate, says May
Well they're more honest than Scheer at least.
Green Party won't ban members from trying to reopen abortion debate, says May
Well they're more honest than Scheer at least.
Elizabeth is unequivocally pro-choice. She is on the record countless times about this and is very clear. She believes in women's control over their bodies and in the right to choose, full stop! The same goes for Paul Manly.
Green Party policy as well is unequivocally pro-choice. And before someone is accepted to run as a Green, they have to read the Green Party policies and agree to stand by them. If there are policies they disagree with, they have to flag said policies. Someone who reads Green Party policies and comes back saying they are anti abortion, would not pass the vetting process.
The point Elizabth was making (not super artfully, I will grant you) was about the limits of her powers as leader of the Green Party. In the other parties all the power sits in the office of the leader. The MPs take their marching orders from the leader and must always toe the party line. As a result many MPs don't even bother to read the legislation they vote on. In the Green Party MPs first and foremost must represent their constituents. In practical terms Green MPs will vote with the leader the vast majority of the time, because they have agreed to common principles, policies and values before they ran as Greens. But every once in a while there might be a disagreement sue to an issue coming up that isn't covered by existing policy, or due to a change in policy. In those cases a Green could vote a different way to Elizabeth.
But the idea that a Green backbencher might promote a private members bill to reopen the abortion debate is not credible.
I would encourage you to actually read or watch the entire interview and see it all in context. I believe that the issue was blown out of proportion as clickbait (in order to generate internet traffic).
Here is a link to the entire interview: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/powerandpolitics/power-lunch-green-elizabeth-may-1.5277007
Here is a link to a Globe and Mail article from yesterday clarifying the Greens position: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/pol...osition-on-abortion-says-green-party-screens/
Here is a link to the Green Party statement on this issue from yesterday: https://www.greenparty.ca/en/statem...ydi9Q504V8DCQf9LaR9x7x0fiWeH51Fz8QKUs_1GbTSws
Elizabeth May is extremely committed to explaining the difference between the power of the leader of the Green Party, to the power of the other leaders. In this case she answered an extreme hypothetical from that perspective, when she should have said that actually couldn't happen. But I can assure you that it was not a dog whistle to Conservatives!
I too was shocked by his comments, as was Paul Manly. Mr. de Brujin is a first time political candidate and is inexperienced. His comments were not given to him by anyone in the Green Party.
I am not sure why he said what he said, but I assure you that it was not a dog whistle to Conservatives that was coordinated with anyone outside of (maybe) his campaign team. He has been spoken to about those comments.
^ Hopefully there will be an official response to all of this and not the campaign manager privately emailing you.
A candidate for the Green Party has said he "doesn't remember" expressing anti-abortion views on at least two Campaign Life Coalition questionnaires, or asking would-be Conservative party voters to consider supporting him because of his abortion views in a Facebook post from 2015.
When asked about a post that laments the ready access some women have to abortion, another candidate for the party said she doesn't recall making those statements on social media.
A spokesperson for the party insists both candidates are avowedly pro-choice and will run for the party in the upcoming federal election campaign.
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Now they don't remember LOL.
The Jeff Sessions defence.
Green candidate in Quebec says there should be secession as quickly as possible:
Could you explain the Tweet you linked? What candidate are you talking about? And this quote Stephen Maher is tweeting (which I'm not sure who it is from) translates to: "If there was a referendum question in Quebec, I would vote yes, obviously."
Could you explain the Tweet you linked? What candidate are you talking about? And this quote Stephen Maher is tweeting (which I'm not sure who it is from) translates to: "If there was a referendum question in Quebec, I would vote yes, obviously."
His tweet is quoting another tweet. Showing up on my end.
Edit - here it is: https://twitter.com/aballinga/status/1171522681776177152?s=19
Fingers crossed that Bernier gets more votes.Hahahahaha
I can't fucking stop laughing
Hahahahaha
I can't fucking stop laughing
I don't suppose anyone could help an old fella out and roughly explain the jist there? I want to laugh too
There's a joke party in Maxime Bernier's riding that is fielding a candidate named Maxime Bernier.
I don't suppose anyone could help an old fella out and roughly explain the jist there? I want to laugh too
If you want a good laugh, in Beauce (Bernier's riding) the Rhinocéros party (a joke party) will run with a candidate named Maxime Bernier too hoping to sow chaos on the ballots.
Hahahahaha
I can't fucking stop laughing
Watch the Rhinos win a seat.The battle to not finish in the last position between Singh and May is already hilariously exciting. How low are both going to go?
If you want a good laugh, in Beauce (Bernier's riding) the Rhinocéros party (a joke party) will run with a candidate named Maxime Bernier too hoping to sow chaos on the ballots.
*Looks at the disaster that is Brexit*His tweet is quoting another tweet. Showing up on my end.
Edit - here it is: https://twitter.com/aballinga/status/1171522681776177152?s=19
Hahahahaha
I can't fucking stop laughing
Speaking of Greens bringing back things we were done "debating":
EDIT: Noticed someone linked it in an earlier post.
Speaking of Greens bringing back things we were done "debating":
This party is polling higher than the NDP. For now, anyway.
CBC said:The Green Party said in an emailed statement that the party does not exclude candidates who support Quebec sovereignty.
"Although the Green Party has the utmost respect for the unique culture of Quebec, it does not support the sovereignist movement,'' it said, adding that the party "does not whip votes and individual MPs are allowed to express their own opinions on this matter.''
Is there strat to drop all these winks and nods in the press only to have May "deny" their position? That's such a Kinsella move.
It's a shame no one is really discussing the PBO's numbers on a 1% wealth tax.
Unfortunate that in the article I read Singh didn't say during the annoncement the NDP would use some of that toward environmental policies. Health is a good second choice though.
no problemoPost an article if you have it. I hadn't heard anything about the PBO weighing in on anything the NDP has proposed.
Canadian Election 2019 |OT| My PC Has Less Flops Than The GreensThe Greens are giving the Rhinoceros party a run for who's the biggest joke this election.
What a surprise that the Bloc are running a sovereignist.To add context to the Nantel thing because no one seems to lol. The Liberals are no better as they are running Réjean Hébert in that riding and he's a former PQ Health Minister under Pauline Marois so that's another one for QC Independence. Bloc will be running Denis Trudel a former QC actor and militant for QC Independence. At the provincial level, that riding is Marie-Victorin and elected one of the few PQ MNA in the 2018 election (that went independant later on) so that riding is still heavily nationalist. Hence why they are all running the same kind of candidate
Canadian Election 2019 |OT| My PC Has Less Flops Than The Greens