May is IN!
I’m really pleased to see this outcome. It proves that democracy is still working in this country.
An Angus Reid survey released yesterday indicates that the majority of Canadians (66%) want Elizabeth May to be included in the TV debate. BC has the highest proportion at 73%.
CP – Green party Leader Elizabeth May is hailing people power after winning her battle to be included in the federal election leaders debates.
The TV network consortium that runs the election debates reversed course Wednesday, announcing that May can participate in the Oct. 1 and 2 events.
The consortium made the change after Prime Minister Stephen Harper and NDP Leader Jack Layton both backed down from their opposition to May’s involvement.
The pair had contended that including May would be tantamount to permitting two Liberal candidates because she has repeatedly expressed her preference for Liberal Leader Stephane Dion over Harper as prime minister.
May had turned her exclusion into a cause celebre, saying the closed-door discussions and secrecy that surrounded the decision were an insult to democracy.
“For this I have just one overwhelming thought, which is enormous gratitude to every single Canadian who has expressed outrage on call-in radio lines, on websites of news media, phoned Stephen Harper, people who wrote notes to Jack Layton’s Facebook,” May said after Harper and Layton relented.
“It’s grassroots power of the people.”
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