Green leader Elizabeth May is confident this federal election will be groundbreaking for her party.
May spoke to more than 250 people during a stop at Vernon’s Polson Park Friday.
“We need a change in Ottawa and we need it now,” she said, while flanked by Okanagan-Shuswap candidate Huguette Allen.
“We will change the climate in Parliament.”
May says people are frustrated with how the other parties are only focused on their own interests and not those of Canadians.
“We will work co-operatively and respect others. Let’s go there and say, ‘Whatever works, we will do.’”
But May did lash out at Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, saying he only called the election because he was afraid the Greens would win a scheduled byelection in Ontario.
“He didn’t want Canadians to see the Greens scoring so much higher than the Conservatives.”
She also believes that is the reason why Harper originally opposed May participating in the televised leaders’ debate.
But Harper agreed to May’s involvement after a public furor arose.
“Canadians who aren’t usually engaged in politics were offended,” she said, adding that Harper should be concerned about the Greens growing in popularity across the country.
“He understands that we reach out to his traditional base. A lot of people drawn to Reform wanted grassroots populism and they have been let down by Stephen Harper.”
May touched on a number of issues including health care, and the need to get to the root cause of illness.
“The single largest source of ill health is poverty and we need to address that issue,” she said.
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