Green boss under fire for Liberal “alliance”
Thursday, March 29th, 2007OTTAWA - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May faces harsh internal criticism over her frequent praise for Liberal Leader Stephane Dion and her plea to Canadians to oust Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The grumbling over May’s approach erupted after high-profile Vancouver Island environmentalist Briony Penn bolted last week from the Green party to run as a candidate for Dion’s Liberals.
Penn, who will attempt to unite all “progressive” voters against Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn in Saanich-Gulf Islands, told The Vancouver Sun in an e-mail her decision was “very much” inspired by May’s praise of Dion and her message that Harper must be defeated.
Penn told a local newspaper last week there’s “an informal alliance, or respect” between Dion and May “to try to bring progressives closer together.”
