How Canada’s Green Party is Winning in the 2019 Election

The Green Party of Canada, led my Elizabeth May, is experiencing the fastest growing support base of any Green Party worldwide during this Canadian 2019 election. That’s because the rise in concern for ecological damage like climate change and greenhouse gasses is becoming one of the most important voter issues in developed countries.

While traditional polls historically fail to capture fundamental paradigm shifts in voter trends – as evidenced by Donald Trump’s historic against-all-odds victory – it is these changes that are redefining the geo-political landscape around the world.

It is no coincidence that environmental superstar Greta Thunberg is campaigning in Alberta at precisely the same time that Canada is heading to the polls.

With Trudeau’s Liberal Party seeing wholesale abandonment by its support base after the PMO’s attempt to improperly pressure then-justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to offer SNC Lavalin executives  an alternative path to prosecution called a deferred prosecution agreement – whereby companies and executives guilty of criminal behaviour can pay a fine instead of going to jail, there is little doubt the Liberals are finished.

In the case of the Progressive Conservative Party, the behaviour and tactics of candidate Andrew Scheer in smearing his competitors has left a foul taste in the mouths of  the traditional right wing voter base. That in conjunction with his inability to articulate any platform of merit will severely damage the PC’s chances of victory at the polls on Monday.

The NDP is still likely way too far to the left socially to be considered seriously by voters toward the middle and to the right of it.

So does this mean the Green Party under Elizabeth May could win a majority?

Stranger things have definitely happened in Canadian politics, and with so many voters from the larger parties fed up with big party politics, we could indeed see an upset.

But the Green Party does not need a majority necessarily to become the most powerful decision maker in a landscape that might result in a coalition government.

Imagine if the Conservatives were to eke out a victory, and the Liberals became the official opposition. In either scenario, the Greens, at over 10 percent of the votes, could be the coalition partner that both partners will seek to woo constantly just to get anything done in parliament.

Then there is the reality that the economic cost of climate change and global warming is threatening to overwhelm the economic damage caused by doing nothing.

Certainly the Green Party is the default presumptive champion of reversing climate change while preserving economic vitality in Canada.

That more than anything could lead many of Canada’s voters to give the Green Party a turn at the helm of Canada.

Like I said; stranger things of happened.

Original article: How Canada’s Green Party is Winning in the 2019 Election

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