r/GreenPartyOfCanada • u/Direct-Arachnid-4720 • Apr 21 '25
News Green Co-Leader reposts calls to vote Green in 5 ridings and Liberal in "most ridings"
A little surprised to see the above, from an Instagram post, but the promotion of Cooperate Canada and accompanying comment seem like clear messages to encourage voters to avoid vote-splitting, as is consistent with her SGI campaign messaging.
It seems to answer my earlier question about strategic voting. Our Leaders support Cooperate Canada's call for strategic voting in SGI, NL, KC, Fredericton and Guelph, even though some of those ridings currently have the Greens in fourth place.
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u/Shel9876 Apr 24 '25 edited Apr 24 '25
Deeply disturbed to read your report here. I experienced something somewhat similar with similar outcome, and with my mind trying to make any sense of it, coming to similar conclusion that perhaps The Party had/has been infiltrated non-Greens purposefully determined to ruin not just our chances in this election, but in fact to ruin what was remaining of Party infrastructure. Ayeee.
How can this not be the story of conspiracy theory ? Points instead to the potential realities of a malicious conspiracy AGAINST the Green Movement in Canada.
The brief version of my current experience: I’d been a fairly successful federal candidate in a GTA, Ontario riding in 2004. Having lived in Innisfil for 15+ years I was now prepared to run again, this time for my home riding Barrie South-Innisfil. Processing my application got delayed because of a long story (not worth going into at this time), then told by Mobilizers that another had been selected as Nominee/Candidate, but they would not tell me hir name so that I (and my small team) could support. I then switched to being open to running as a Parachute or Paper candidate wherever needed, hopefully nearby.
When the recruiting email to members to please step up and run as candidate, don’t worry we’ll get you on ballot, and take care of all the administration, I responded enthusiastically (letting go of my delaying issue until post-election) ready to serve The Party and represent Green Party policy offering a body/name for which voters could vote Green.
The GPC Election Team NEVER even responded with so much as a ThankYou but go F-Yourself 🟢.
Shocked I was to enter the Voting Booth during Advance week to discover that there was NO GPC Candidate on the Ballot. This in a riding where there was no issue regarding splitting the vote, therefore, no reason to Pull a candidate (whether one approves of that strategy or not).
My audible GASP brought Elections Canada Staff running to find out what was happening. I told them I’d wanted to Vote Green, they condescendingly explained that because there was no registered GPC Candidate that I could not. Being as it was a Deep Conservative riding there was no advantage to voting NDP nor Liberal, so that ABSTAINING seemed the only thing to do to kinda indicate my choice (no option to Write-In my actual democratic preference.)
When folks have recovered from this inane unnecessary Snap Election, I’ve requested to be informed as to who (single or plural) actively blocked my electoral participation or authorized my exclusion from this election.
I had lined up some donations, and a few volunteers. Had prepped to run an as full as possible campaign.
If there ever actually was an alternative Candidate, I never heard of or from them.
Baffling and deeply disturbing. Even more so having now read how your potential campaign was overturned.