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Originally Posted by Leon Kennedy
How would things be any different if I had voted for the Liberals or NDP instead of the Greens? How are the Greens a "fringe party" when one in ten Canadians who took the time to vote in the last election voted for them? Don't you know how the Reform party started out? Wow. Just wow.
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In the last federal election, the Green Party captured only 6.78% of the popular vote, which is 32.2% less than the 10% that you claimed ("one in ten"). For the record, that 6.78% counted for only 937,613 out of 13,834,294 voters.
In addition to this ridiculously low voter statistic, there is also the incredibly dismal fact that they failed to win a single seat in Parliament. That's actually the good news. The bad news for the Greens was that not only did they not win any seats, but they lost the only seat they had won in the previous election... that belonging to their party leader, Elizabeth May.
Yeah, you're right. They're not a fringe party at all.
Edit: I'm not even going to waste my time trying to explain to you the concept of "your vote" combined with the other 4.2 million votes that were wasted on one of the eighteen fringe parties that ran in the last election.