Greens consider reduced ranks
Monday, April 2nd, 2007by James CowanTORONTO - The Green Party may abandon its efforts to field candidates in every riding so it can target certain areas, leader Elizabeth May said Sunday.
May attended a nomination meeting in the uptown Toronto riding of St. Paul’s Sunday night. Despite the party’s rise in both polls and prominence, the event was a spartan affair, held in a cavernous church hall filled with twice the chairs needed to accommodate the crowd. As music from a religious revival meeting next door seeped through the walls, approximately 50 people listened as May boasted of their party’s 100-page election platform, ready to go for whenever the next vote is called.
