I've had several former Green campaign managers reach out to me privately about my recent pieces on the Green Party of Canada. Thanks for being game to share this publicly and for the number-crunching. I'm assuming that by any metric, Annamie Paul's Greens ran a more successful campaign in 2021?
After the disaster of the 2015 election campaign I stepped back from active involvement with the Federal Greens. 2019 was marginally better but the party still did not understand how to create a grassroots local organization that could actually win significantly more seats.
The party has needed to shift the power to the EDAs. But they have not and I do not see this happening.
I have seen the insides of a lot of political parties federally and provincially, I have never seen as top down a party as the Greens and the people at the top do not seem to have the skills to make good decisions that lead to a stronger party that wins seats.
1.25% of the vote. That is all the party managed. That is only one in 80 Canadians cast their vote for the Greens. One quarter of the Green votes went to three candidates, May, Morice, and Manly. In the other 340 ridings the Greens managed less than 1% of the vote (yes, that is in part because the party could not get 108 of its candidates nominated)
Victoria, where I live, the Green candidate managed 3.1%. This is a seat where the Greens came a competitive second in the 2-13 by-election and the 2015 and 2019 federal elections.
The Federal Greens are not in a similar place to when it was an offshoot of the BC Greens from 1984 to 2000. The Greens would not be in this situation if Jim Harris, who is the man that build the federal Greens, had remained leader.
I've had several former Green campaign managers reach out to me privately about my recent pieces on the Green Party of Canada. Thanks for being game to share this publicly and for the number-crunching. I'm assuming that by any metric, Annamie Paul's Greens ran a more successful campaign in 2021?
After the disaster of the 2015 election campaign I stepped back from active involvement with the Federal Greens. 2019 was marginally better but the party still did not understand how to create a grassroots local organization that could actually win significantly more seats.
The party has needed to shift the power to the EDAs. But they have not and I do not see this happening.
I have seen the insides of a lot of political parties federally and provincially, I have never seen as top down a party as the Greens and the people at the top do not seem to have the skills to make good decisions that lead to a stronger party that wins seats.
1.25% of the vote. That is all the party managed. That is only one in 80 Canadians cast their vote for the Greens. One quarter of the Green votes went to three candidates, May, Morice, and Manly. In the other 340 ridings the Greens managed less than 1% of the vote (yes, that is in part because the party could not get 108 of its candidates nominated)
Victoria, where I live, the Green candidate managed 3.1%. This is a seat where the Greens came a competitive second in the 2-13 by-election and the 2015 and 2019 federal elections.
The Federal Greens are not in a similar place to when it was an offshoot of the BC Greens from 1984 to 2000. The Greens would not be in this situation if Jim Harris, who is the man that build the federal Greens, had remained leader.