Urgency of climate change motivated Elizabeth May in Green Party leadership race
Local MP Elizabeth May said she would have not become leader of the federal Green Party again if she did not think the climate crisis was pressing.
She made these comments after she won her party’s leadership race on the sixth and final ranked ballot with 4,666 votes. May had been leader between 2006 and 2019. May, who ran on a joint ticket with Jonathan Pedneault, remained in the lead throughout the voting, with Anna Keenan finishing a strong second.
Pedneault’s status as would-be deputy leader still remains to be confirmed as it requires a change in the party’s constitution. But May made it clear that this constitutional change is a longer-term project. Pedneault will instead be working on internal party structures, while May will focus her efforts on raising the climate change issue in the House of Commons, including efforts to stop the Trans-Mountain pipeline.
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