Elizabeth May's response to Leaders Debate

[myViewQueens]

Elizabeth May is like the class clown.

[myViewQueens]

Elezaneth

[Fuel1979]

Where can I find what each party "wants" to do?



[Sithlord703]

I'd consider myself in the Center of the spectrum. I have my Liberal views and Conservative views. Thats why I like the Liberal and Conservative Party. Green is to Liberal for my liking and I'd consider them to be nuts, sorry, the NDP I don't like either. If I was an american I'd only vote Democrat. Because the Republicans are nuts. And the Tea Party defines the term Nutcases, because anyone who supports that party is a nutcase.

[SnipeYourCheese]

She is so nieve. One green member cannot do crap. Gary lunn and the conservitive party FTW

[Freethinker12341]

@SnipeYourCheese i'm not a conservative but the green party i agree with you is a joke. they dont even have a foreign policy. they're evil eco fascists, and radical feminists. im talking extreme feminists! they're scary!

[SnipeYourCheese]

@Freethinker12341 Well I tell you, im glad we live in a free country where we all can have our own opinions but the one green member off in the corner of the country is kind of embarrasing

[JasOrdinaire]

@Freethinker12341 Oh little freethinker, were you raised in a cave? Are you scared of your own shadow? BOO!! The radical eco-feminists are coming to get you! Don't let them bite; you might turn Green.

[Freethinker12341]

@JasOrdinaire ?

[donsjuand]

The Greens have a thoughtful platform. As such, I trust more Canadians will actually read it as opposed to believing non-backed claims designed to discredit without reason.

[donsjuand]

Excellent work Elizabeth! Although it makes no sense each time someone who doesn't own a HUGE oil company or heavy corp votes against social causes and pro BIG business (this is a conservative attribute), my hope for positive, truthful and supportive global change is RENEWED through heroic efforts of humane values. I'm proud to have voted Green and will continue to do so, provided the party reasonably holds its platform mission. I challenge all to read the platform.

[blueman013]

sadly canada always elects some dumbass shit person called stephen harper and also know as 2012

[NickBlackDIN]

im doing more then voting green I'm living green

[TheLaughingOut]

@MagicTheGathering98 You make such a compelling argument. I will now surely vote for your preferred party.

[lumiere2020]

I had pretty much made my choice. NPD (the Bloc being my easy option). Then I wanted to watch what May was having to say to have a fair point of view and I don't know if I'm still gonna vote NPD.

[geebus80]

please note that - conservative - NDP and liberal youtube web posts and pages DO NOT allow commenting.

To think that a government funded page of a democratic country does not allow commenting by the public should tell you all you need to know about them.

They dont care what you think, this is not a democracy it is a democratic regime, where we elect the person that tells us what to do and we have little to no say after that. Lack of change after protests is proof of this.

Vote non confidence!

[niccrant]

The Bands get there free mony from The tax payers...wher do the natives get there money is free loaders...STOP paying non tax payers money from Tax payers...pay your taxes free loaders

[hanksnow82]

I really don't get the conection between the Green Party and the indians other then none of them seem to work .

[georgekostaras]

I encourage Canadians to insert a dead animal in Stephen Harper's mail box. The man is a living joke and an enemy of democracy

[RedDaVincy]

I LOVE YOU MISS MAY!!!!!!!

P.S. Long guns should be registered, it's not very GREEN to help hunters.

[dharmapunk777]

@RedDaVincy How is it not "Green" to help hunters? Isn't hunting better than industrial meat farms?

[RedDaVincy]

@dharmapunk777 Green is a lot of things, I'd say species preservation is one of them. Agriculture is one of many pressures that puts species at risk, but outright shooting dead all of the native fauna I'd say does it a hell of a lot quicker.

[dharmapunk777]

@RedDaVincy That sounds pretty ignorant. It is this kind of thinking that gives the Green a bad name. Hunting and "shooting dead all of the native fauna" are not the same thing. Industrial farming is has much greater impact on the environment and wildlife. People don't just go out into the woods and shoot all the animals dead and leave their corpses to rot. They eat them. It isn't fur trading days out there. What about Aboriginals? They used to hunt and they used to be pretty Green about it.

[RedDaVincy]

The natives were few. Take fishing today. Many commercial species are being threatened to feed the country. And the hunting of wild bison very nearly eliminated them. Hunting does not replace agriculture. It just imposes a strong, direct negative effect. It has to be extremely regulated and even then ecological predictions are notoriously difficult to make correctly. Declaring every argument that disagrees with your feelings to be ignorant is worse than ignorance; you're pulling a Harper.

[dharmapunk777]

@RedDaVincy I don't know what you mean by that, but making hyperbolic and reactionary statements about serious and cultural issues is wrong and there is a word for it and that word is ignorance. This is a place for hunting in an environmentally conscientious and compassionate world. I believe that intent is the defining difference.

[zentonil]

@RedDaVincy @RedDaVincy Native Americans hunted bison for hundreds of years without threatening their population growth. White settlers who embraced the delusion of infinite resources indiscriminately hunted them to dangerous levels. It wasn't about their population level, it was their mentality and their relationship with their environment. The agricultural industry has stimulated a culture of hyper-carnivores and relies on hormone therapy and antbiotics to sustain it.

[RedDaVincy]

@zentonil That doesn't make any sense.

[zentonil]

@RedDaVincy How so?

[donsjuand]

@dharmapunk777 Careful, it is not the words of one supporter that determines the viewpoint of other individuals - regardless of the group. An unbiased polling is the only way to conclusively determine viewpoint. Other than that, it would be speaking a fallacy of logic through hasty generalization. My source is critical thinking through reasoned logic.

[BulgarianInCanada]

I am VOTING GREEN!

[tehbrookzorz]

Is there a term that describes the alternative to first-past-the-post voting as suggested by Miss May? It seems to me that many voters aren't active based on this or similar reasoning; not so much apathy as a sense of being lost in the fray. I presume many of the Green party's potential voters fall under this category. I'm not going to jump up and say the voting system needs to be changed, but enthusiasm needs to be raised. The first step is claiming democratic rights. VOTE!

[spudd777]

Bake me some cookies, Bitch

[17scarz]

@spudd777

she couldn't make it through law school, she can't get elected, she fails at pretty much everything she tries to do, and you actually think she can bake cookies? no, i don't think so. she looks like she lives a rather unhealthy lifestyle which probably includes a lot of eating cookies, not a lot of cooking them though.

[ogopo]

The Green Party is a breath of fresh air compared to the stale, irrelevant bickering of the other federal parties.

One thing I noticed is that the Conservative YouTube videos have comments and like/dislike disabled. They are afraid of what Canadians actually have to say. That is not democracy. How can they represent us when they won't even listen to what we have to say?

The Green Party, on the other hand, is all about real democracy. That is one of the many reasons I will vote for them.

[niccrant]

For First nation we have given and given money in the billions for the pasy years to natives but they just do the same shit over a nd over again...Get over it the world has moved on...Sick of paying out to these welfare takers...

[crackparty]

@niccrant You are misinformed about aboriginals. They do not receive free money from the government, only the land which was given to them under the queen's rule. All money given to aboriginal families is done so by the band and what they make from resources. I worked for social assistance before and about 70% of my "clients" were single white men and women with either drug problems or just couldn't survive without help. Another bunch made up of immigrants and other people with money problems.

[geebus80]

@crackparty doesnt change the fact that how we treat aboriginals is discrimination, we single them out for tax breaks and free land.

The sins of the father are not the sins of the son, if this were the case i am pretty sure the church would be abolished by now.

They can be 1 of 2 things, equal canadians in all aspects and treatment, or gone.

Under their own beliefs people do not "own land" so how can it be theirs.

they are equal to all canadians not above or below as the social benefits suggest.

[crackparty]

@geebus80 While I agree generally, it sounds to me like you're saying the aboriginals don't deserve the land that was given to them. They were here before us, this land was not stolen from them but it was unrightfully claimed by our ancestors. And because the aboriginals of this land were kind enough to welcome us, we did nothing but treat them poor for a very long time. Not necessarily by our government, but by the people in general. How can they be GIVEN land, if we didn't take it from them?

[niccrant]

This is dumb..to vote for her is a vote down the tubes...this lady really don't understand how jobs are created and where they come from...to do what she talks about will not care jobs..it will cauase unemployment...PLus Green people really do believe we can live 100% green...maybe so but a long time in the future before it can been seen...The technologie is not created to go green...its a good ideal but it not there...this woman would raise our taxes to pay for her over the top creations...

[yammerz]

Elizabeth May and the Greens give me the same sort of hope I'm sure Americans had during Obama's campaign election...:)

[17scarz]

@yammerz

Hahaha what a joke! Lizzie May is no Obama. She's more like Ross Perot.

[yammerz]

@17scarz Yeah cuz she's totally a businessman??!

[markajaw]

The world will never have a strong economy that runs on oil.