Elizabeth May leads Green charge in Metro Vancouver campaign stops

Green party Leader Elizabeth May braved a drizzly Thursday to knock on doors with local candidate Amita Kuttner in the Burnaby North Seymour riding, a symbolically important seat for the Greens to fight for.

A Green win in Burnaby North Seymour would “demonstrate people’s support for a focus on climate-change politics and environmental politics in general,” said political observer Kimberly Speers, an assistant teaching professor in the University of Victoria’s school of public administration. May and the Greens are placing their hopes on the idea that voters don’t face the same pressure to vote strategically to unseat a government and that the party has demonstrated in provincial elections that Green candidates can win.

At the provincial level, the Greens recently won official Opposition status in P.E.I., and in B.C. three Green MLAs hold the balance of power “holding the government’s feet to the fire,” May said, which helps their argument. However, Speers said the Green party is sitting almost where it was at the same point of the last election, polling in about fourth place, with some surveys putting them close to the third-place NDP. In an Angus Reid poll released Thursday, however, the NDP appeared to be gaining support.

This time around, Racelle Kooy is carrying the Green banner, and the party might “find themselves with a winnable seat here,” said Speers.

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