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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
The Green party is *NOT* a one-issue party. People have gotten that through their heads on the other side of the pond but it's having trouble getting through the skulls of Canadians.
Anyhow, this just speaks to need for proportional representation. To get around the limitations of first-past-the-post the parties are depriving the people in two ridings from voting for the party that they really want to vote for.
Even without the Liberal running, the odds of beating McKay in that riding are 1,000,000,000:1.
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They are a one-issue party. The rest of their "platform" is an incoherent blend of NDP, Liberal and Conservative policy, varying greatly on whom you ask and who they are trying to win over (if its Calgary, they emphasize their centre right policies, if in Vancouver, their centre left policies, etc.) They are bound solely on one issue, the environment.
Its a party whose sole goal is to raise awareness and not to actually govern or even to have significant presence in parliament. I got that straight from the mouth of the Green Party's Alberta deputy leader. That's why publicity stunts such as this are not surprising and actually part of their M.O.
As for another poster saying the Conservatives don't care about the environment, that's total BS. They don't care about Kyoto. Big difference. Plus, you'd have to be a total moron to think humans are 100% responsible for climate change, and that buying pollution credits from some podunk banana republic is going to save the world. Fact is, bad things are going to happen, a lot of what is happening is due to natural effect (a lot is human too obviously), and money and effort are best served on efficiency, clean energy and mitigation of loss. Not propping up another country. Conservatives are just more pragmatic on the environment, and less reactionary than their leftist cousins.