Beating Harper: NDP + Greens?

Expect a new Liberal leader to step in and accept business support in return for doing what business wants in the same way Martin and Chrétien took over Mulroney policies to woo business backing. The main difference between then and now was that the former division between the old Tories and the Reformers made life easier for the Liberals. The best immediate prospect seem to be more minority government, but with the NDP holding the balance of power, and able to extract concessions from the Liberals, or less so from the Conservatives. However, prospects for more division on the left could threaten the NDP standings in the House. Later this month, the Green party will select a new leader, possibly Elizabeth May. The Greens polled 4.3 per cent of the national vote in the 2004 election ensuring them public funding. In 2006, their support stalled at 4.5 per cent. But they are attracting young, passionate members, largely based on the obvious-to-all-but-fans-of-the-National Post deterioration in the conditions of human existence. In 2006, the Greens received their largest support (6.5 per cent) in Alberta where Harper is strongest and the assault on the environment the most evident. In an article published in Canadian Forum in 1989, former NDP MP Lynn McDonald called on the NDP to be the Green Party of Canada. One of the most effective members ever to be elected — it was her private member's bill banning tobacco advertising that began the fight back against smoking in public spaces — McDonald saw that the traditional sources of appeal for the NDP would not be enough to bring it to power. http://www.rabble.ca/politics.shtml?sh_itm=7603e6ffc2f6dfc9d109554ec6bfc779&rXn=1&;

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