General Politics Discussion

[danbrotherston]

I'm not sure if this was in reference to what I said, but that wasn't my point.

Chapmans NIMBYism record has already been pointed out by the other parties. If she wins the NDP learns they can run an anti-housing candidate and win. This is of course wrong, and anti-housing stances are going to play very badly with young people (i.e., the people the NDP, Green, and Liberals NEED to motivate to vote to win). If they instead learn that fielding an anti-housing candidate is a losing strategy, maybe they become marginally more careful in picking candidates in the future.

No, just a general comment on dialogue about the Greens being somehow powerless relative to the NDP. If anything, your statement is why my vote for Clancy was an easy decision.

Ahh fair enough...I wasn't sure, my bad.

And yeah, I do agree with your point as well, I think the green party does an outsized amount of work given their relatively low number of seats. Heck, I remember the first time a green party MP was elected...very exciting times.

OTOH Their influence is perhaps more in line with their actual popular support broadly in the public, which even with our broken electoral system can hit 5%.