Green Party

Green party
The Green Party of Canada (French: Parti vert du Canada) is a Canadian federal political party,
founded in 1983.
The Greens advance a broad multi-issue political platform that reflects its core values of ecological
wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy and non-violence. It has been led by Elizabeth May since 26
August 2006.
The party broke 1% of the popular vote in the 2004 federal election, when it received 4.3% and qualified
for federal funding. Its support has ranged between 3.1% and 14% since the 2006 federal election. In the
2008 federal election, the Green Party of Canada was invited to the debates for the first time[8] and
achieved a high mark of 6.8% of the popular vote. With just under a million votes, it was the only federally
funded party to receive more votes than in 2006, but it still failed to win any seats. In the 2011 federal
election the Green Party of Canada decided to focus on increasing seats over increasing votes,[9] and
succeeded in sending its first MP to Ottawa, while its share of the popular vote dropped to below 4% for
the first time in eleven years.

Party leader
Elizabeth Evans May OC MP (born June 9, 1954) is a Canadian politician. May is leader of the Green
Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for SaanichGulf Islands. An environmentalist, author,
activist, and lawyer, May served as the Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006.
While May's family home is in Margaree Harbour, Cape Breton Island[1] she moved her permanent
residence to Sidney, British Columbia in 2010.[2] On May 2, 2011, she became the first member of the
Green Party of Canada to be elected as a Member of Parliament.[a]
In the Federal election on October 19, 2015 Elizabeth May was re-elected in the riding of SaanichGulf
Islands, being the only Green Party member to win a seat. Prior to this election, May had been invited to
participate in two of the leaders' debates: one hosted by Maclean's magazine on August 6, 2015 and the
first French language debate hosted by Radio-Canada on September 24, 2015. However, May was
excluded from the other two debates.[3] After being advised of the exclusion from the September 28, 2015
Munk Debate[4] on Canadas Foreign Policy, May took her message to social media where she criticized the
Harper government on

Issues
The Green Party of the United States (or GPUS) is a federation of state green parties in the mold of the
leftist, environmentalist European Greens movement. Along with the Libertarian Party, it is one of the two
largest third parties in the nation. The GPUS was founded on the "Four Pillars of the Green Party" Ecological Wisdom, Social and Economic Justice, Grassroots Democracy, and Nonviolence and Peace and party members generally embrace environmentalism, non-hierarchical participatory democracy,
social justice, and respect for diversity, peace and nonviolence.
Until 2001, the Greens were largely a collection of fairly autonomous state/local based political entities
with only a weak (and sometimes splintered) national leadership structure that largely served to
coordinate electoral activities. That faction -- formerly named the Association of State Green Parties
(ASGP) -- was the larger and more moderate of the two unrelated Green parties vying for control of the
green movement at that time. The ASGP voted in 2001 to convert from an umbrella coordinating
organization into a formal, unified national party organization, leaving the other party - the Greens/Green
Party USA (G/GPUSA) - to operate independently.