The Green Party is a Natural Disaster
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The episode discusses the decline of the Green Party of Canada through the insights of former member Mark Lerien-Young.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit hatchetmedia.substack.com This episode is for paid subscribers. If you would like to hear the whole thing, please support The Hatchet by going to hatchetmedia.substack.com . Now this might seem hard to believe, but there was a time when the Green Party of Canada was riding high. If just a few things went their way, they were on track to becoming a mean Green winning machine and supplant the NDP as the progressive party of choice. But since then, the party has been a cavalcade of absurdities too long to document here. But for me, the lowest point might have come at the end of last year. That’s when Elizabeth May, after consulting with Prime Minister Mark Carney, voted in support of his budget. And then not too long after, he went and signed an MOU with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith committing to more pipelines for the oil sands. For Mark Lerien-Young, none of the rolling disaster that is the Green Party of Canada has come as a surprise. After all, he was watching from the inside as much of it went down. Mark is a longtime writer, journalist, humorist, science podcaster, environmental activist and former Green Party of…
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