As soon as I started to read this article, my spidey senses started to tingle.
Maybe people who were thinking of voting for the Greens because of their stands on environmental issues will now strategically vote for the Liberals instead. After all, May has given Dion her green seal of approval.
In fact, that's what some Green party members, who are not big fans of Dion, are worried about.
We already know that Dion is a backroom boy. He and Kennedy cooked up an agreement during the leadership convention, that won him the election. Then he changes his stance on the anti-terrorism vote, pay back to some members that won him the election for leader. If it worked so well then, why not expand your reach?
Do Dion and May have a backroom deal? Just suppose for a minute that an election gets called. May comes out, AFTER the election call, and states that she is merging her party with the Liberals, or even throwing her support behind the Liberals, how would that 5 to 8% of the vote change the election? Is that why Garth went to the Liberals, does he know whats up?
I know, it's too strange to contemplate, but could that be why the Liberals are not going to run a candidate against May? Is it a bigger deal than that? Are the Liberals and Greens running strong candidates against weak ones? Where does this leave the NDP?
Those senses are tingling about this, and in politics things change from week to week. If May doesn't come out strongly against the article and stop acting like she is part of the Liberal party, both the Conservatives and the NDP better pay some attention to those two parties. The Green candidates better sit May down and find out exactly what she is up to, or they might find themselves without a party.
Call it my sixth sense, call it spidey senses, but something is stinking to high heaven.
UPDATE: I'm not the only one thinking this way!
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Somebody remind May that Mulroney was awarded the "Greenest PM":
Elizabeth May of the Sierra Club, who helped initiate Thursday's event, told The Canadian Press that Mulroney made the environment a priority for his government.
She said he was the first leader to sign the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, which was a predecessor to the Kyoto Protocol.
Mulroney also managed to finalize an acid-rain treaty that sharply reduced sulphur emissions in eastern North America, despite misgivings by Ronald Reagan, the U.S. president at the time, according to CTV's Ottawa bureau chief Robert Fife.
One of Mulroney's lasting decisions was the $3-billion Green Plan, funding environmental research that produced data still widely used today.
"The truth is that for many years I've been saying that Brian Mulroney had an environmental records that puts subsequent prime ministers to shame," May told CTV News.
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