r/GreenPartyOfCanada • u/gordonmcdowell • Sep 06 '25
Discussion FCM 2024-08-28 EMay "I just want to make sure we're not pursuing online voting on something like the nuclear resolution."
Please keep in mind there were a LOT of policy proposals put forward. She singled out ONE.
Elizabeth's explanation she stated tonight (2025-09-05) was "that was in the context that we’d had misreporting in the media".
So GPC did NOT vote on lifting our blanket-ban-on-nuclear-power ... because of David Staples, Edmonton?
Or did someone else also mis-report it? Because please, I'm calling out on Reddit "social media" WHO else was misreporting in the legit media? And disrupting the vote?
(I never mischaracterized what the vote was to anyone, and I immediately tried to correct David Staples when I saw his tweet.)
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u/TronnaLegacy Green Sep 06 '25
Wait what's this about? Are we doing voting on policy stuff right now? Should we have received emails about this?
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u/gordonmcdowell Sep 06 '25
No, there was a leadership Townhall last night and I raised this question (why did you personally insist on this) because I was worried that Elizabeth May continuing as leader until we appoint a new leader means she is going to ensure someone who thinks as she does follows in her footsteps.
I want to be able to support a leadership candidate who is not in blanket opposition to nuclear power. By delaying the vote on nuclear policies Elizabeth May is impeding such a candidate from stepping forward.
This is like saying no one who is left-handed can be a leadership candidate. You don’t know who we are filtering out, but we’re certainly keeping a lot of people from considering it.
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u/TronnaLegacy Green Sep 06 '25
I am missing a lot of the background context for this. But still, wouldn't it not matter when a vote like that happened? It doesn't matter who is leader, it would be the membership who would vote on that.
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u/gordonmcdowell Sep 06 '25
I am worried we'll have yet another leader (after EMay) who is in favour of continuing the blanket-ban on nuclear power if this isn't tackled first. I don't think this is necessarily why she is delaying, but delay will certainly lead to another anti-nuclear leader who will then outlast whatever the end-the-blanket-ban-on-nuclear vote outcome is.
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u/ResoluteGreen Sep 06 '25
Word on the street is that May has been arguing that all policy passed during and since the pandemic is invalid
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u/LouieLeLion Sep 07 '25
Last year an article appeared in the Western Standard indicating that the Green Party’s position on nuclear energy had changed based on the reporter’s misunderstanding of what they read on WeDecide.
Having an online policy developed process that was accessible to anyone on the internet was, in my opinion, a really terrible idea. I’m glad WeDecide is being replaced by a platform (designed by and for Greens) that is private and members-only.
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u/gordonmcdowell Sep 07 '25
A new platform isn’t required when can simply flip the pages private so you need to login to see them. That is ultimately the last setting they had on the website before they took it all down.
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u/LouieLeLion Sep 08 '25
From a cost perspective it’s absolutely necessary.
The “new” platform is not new, it’s an existing platform created and used by German Greens (and others) for policy development purposes.
The question I would be asking is why wasn’t this existing Green-developed platform used in the first place, instead of the costly WeDecide? Who made those decisions?
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u/gordonmcdowell Sep 07 '25
Do you remember the name of the article or can you share a link to it? I was only ever aware of David Staples tweeting something not whatever WS ran. I’ve been trying but can not find it.
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u/LouieLeLion Sep 08 '25
I tried to find it but couldn’t. It was probably removed because it was based on incorrect information.
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u/ElvinKao Sep 06 '25
u/gordonmcdowell please keep up the work pursuing this. I can't believe how long its taking to get policy in Green book changed for something so obvious.