{news} Fw: USGP-INT Canadian News Environmentalist pondering run for Green party leadership

[Justine McCabe]

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>
> April 15, 2006
>
>
> Environmentalist pondering run for Green party leadership
> By CP
>
> OTTAWA -- Elizabeth May, one of the country's best-known environmental
> activists, is pondering a run for leadership of the floundering Green 
> Party
> of Canada.
>
> Current leader Jim Harris hasn't said if he will run again in an automatic
> leadership vote at the party's August convention in Ottawa.
>
> There is speculation he may not stand given the party's disappointing
> results in the January election.
>
> The party won no seats and achieved only a slight improvement in its share
> of the popular vote, to 4.5% from 4.3% in 2004.
>
> May resigned as executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada earlier 
> this
> month.
>
> She confirmed this week she is seriously considering a run at the Green
> leadership, but admitted to worries about entering the sometimes vicious
> world of partisan politics.
>
> http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2006/04/15/pf-1535394.html
>
>
> Julia Willebrand, Ed.D
> Co-chair, International Committee, United States Green Party
> Co-president, Federation of Green Parties of the Americas (FPVA)
> 212 877-5088--