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Elizabeth May: 91ƵLikely91Ƶ more Greens elected in Greater Victoria

Federal leader kicked of 43rd election in her riding of Saanich91ƵGulf Islands
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Election signs popped up at the corner of Highway 17 and Beacon Avenue shortly after the dropping of the writ, marking the start of Canada91Ƶs 43rd election campaign. (Wolf Depner/News Staff)

Federal leader Elizabeth May predicts Greater Victoria will send more of her Green Party candidates to Ottawa, as the election campaign gets underway.

91ƵWe91Ƶre likely to see more Greens elected in the area,91Ƶ said May in an email after kicking off her campaign at an event in downtown Victoria. She spent part of Wednesday travelling to Toronto, where the first leaders91Ƶ debate will be hosted Thursday.

May, who became the MP for Saanich91ƵGulf Islands in 2011, is running for a third term. 91ƵI feel good about my record, but know I could have done so much more with additional Greens elected,91Ƶ she said.

Paul Manly holds the other Green seat in the House Commons, after he won a byelection in May in Nanaimo91ƵLadysmith.

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Current predictions give the Greens just under four seats, plus or minus three seats, on Oct. 21.

Sabina Singh, running for the New Democrats against May, promised to make the environment a key point of her campaign.

91ƵI don91Ƶt think there is any party in the world that cannot afford to be green,91Ƶ Singh said, adding her party under leader Jagmeet Singh will also raise socio-economic issues.

Conservative hopeful David Busch said his party91Ƶs environmental platform is the 91Ƶbest one,91Ƶ but his campaign will take a different direction.

91ƵOur issues that we are stressing are the same issues that people have been talking to me at the doors over this past year 91Ƶ specifically, health care and the cost of living,91Ƶ Busch said.

Requests for comment from Liberal candidate Ryan Windsor and Ron Broda of the People91Ƶs Party of Canada were not immediately returned.


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About the Author: Wolf Depner

I joined the national team with Black Press Media in 2023 from the Peninsula News Review, where I had reported on Vancouver Island's Saanich Peninsula since 2019.
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