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Originally Posted by octothorp
Yeah, I think May has been abysmal as a leader for the Greens. And I'm not happy about how their platform has gone from being relatively fiscally conservative last time around to promising more spending per year than any of the other parties. It's too bad, I think they could have really carved out a niche for themselves as a socially liberal, fiscally conservative party and draw votes from both sides of the spectrum.
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Yep, that pretty much sums up my feelings too. I was hoping the Greens might some day emerge as a viable opposition voice positioned somewhere to the right of the Liberals, but still left of centre. Not as an official opposition party, but as a replacement for the NDP in the power structure. But May has moved the party left of the NDP, and torpedoed their momentum and growth. It will be interesting to see if they can recover, and if so, I wonder how long it will take.