How will the GPC address strategic voting?
There exists a group of Greens who believe that the strategic voting issue in the last election was somehow blown out of proportion, that it wasn’t a big deal and still isn’t a big deal. There are others who disagree and believe its effect over the outcome of the election for the Green Party was greater than any other issue or occurrence. The NDP and Liberals knew that strategic voting would hurt the Greens, because the argument that votes should do anything to stop the Conservatives held significant weight with many Canadians. The campaign played right into it and Elizabeth May refused to tell voters that they should not vote strategically. Many felt that this was an affront to democracy itself, where the purpose of parties is to offer voters their choice on a ballot box and not advocate voting for others to stop someone else from winning. On September 24th, she noted that “I’d rather have no Green seats and Stephen Harper lose, than a full caucus that stares across the floor at Steph
