Greening the television election debates

A nice post by Steve Janke. Ms May is especially trying to green a certain valley:

...In 1966, Annapolis Valley replaced Digby-Annapolis-Kings. In the 1976 redistribution, Annapolis Valley-Hants was created from 83 per cent of Annapolis Valley and 17 per cent of Halifax-East Hants. There was no change in the 1986 redistribution but in 1996 the name was changed to Kings-Hants...

Mark C.

Damian adds: I see Janke's point, and I'm not anxious to give the Green Party even more exposure. That said, in 1993 Preston Manning was included in the debates despite there being only one Reform Party MP (albeit an elected one) and Lucien Bouchard was allowed to participate even though the Bloc caucus was made up almost entirely of floor-crossers. With these precedents, and with the Greens not that far behind the NDP in some polls, I don't see how May can be left out.

Posted by markc at September 1, 2008 11:52 AM