[VegChat] Municipal elections coming up in the fall

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PS to my previous message...
   
  wonder if any of the local GREEN candidates would be interested....specifically,  David Chernushenko, Federal Green Candidate for Ottawa-Centre..  After all, didn't Kim Campbell start out at the municipal level..or was it as a school board trustee...
   
  regardless, would be great if someone of his mindset was mayor, and that would give him some political experience.....
   
  BTW, here are the stats from the GREEN site as to how they fared.  It is interesting that in wild rose alberta, they came in second to the former Reform MP, Myron ?....who is actually from Colorado.....Harris' speech to Empire Club last week or so did say they had a lot of support in alberta from oil patch workers.
   
  Note they got the most votes for a riding here in ottawa-centre...so this could indicate that ottawa is ready to embrace a green mayor
   
   few Green results:

Percentage nationally: 4.5%
Number of votes: 665,940

Best province: Alberta, 6.6%
Best riding (percentage): Bruce--Grey--Owen Sound, 12.9%
Best riding (number of votes): Ottawa Centre, 6,766 votes

  

Edelweiss D'Andrea <edandrea at magma.ca> wrote:
  We escaped a majority Conservative government. Hurray!!!

The Greens and NDP, two parties with excellent environmental platforms, got a combined 21% of the popular vote in last night's election. The Greens got 4% and NDP got 17%. The NDP gained 11 seats (30 seats, up from 19 in the last election). 

However, it's time to start thinking about the municipal election, which is taking place in the fall. Did you know that grassroots organizations in the US have pressured their municipal governments to take action, and it's worked. In Oregon, candidates were picked based on their environmental records, and many of these "green" candidates got onto city council by acclamation.

Canadian cities have a long way to go before getting anywhere near the commitment to sustainability as these US cities. But we can do it!

In Ottawa, a majority of city councillors consistently vote down environmental bills. This year, our city council voted to go $37,000,000 into debt by 2008 to build roads, mainly suburban roads that will support ever-growing car traffic, but it voted against spending $1,400,000 for environmental programs to monitor air quality and encourage greenhouse gas reduction, among other things. 


I would like to ask you all if you would consider getting involved in helping "green" candidates get voted in. I promise it will be fun. We have a graphic artist, an event-organizer extraordinaire, a professional writer, and an excellent cookie baker onboard. I have invited community groups to get involved, too. 

Sincerely yours,

Edelweiss

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[mailto:vegchat-bounces at ottawaveg.com]On Behalf Of Jayme Dunlop
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 3:39 PM
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Subject: [VegChat] Elections over!


Election night has come and gone with no great drama. Thankfully the 
Conservatives were held to a minority, that would have been a messy 
four years!

The sad part for us Urbanites is the representation in the government. 
The three Metro regions of Canada's biggest cities(Vancouver, Toronto, 
Montreal) have 0 Conservative seats. It sure says allot of the stark 
differences between rural and city folk.

Though I did not vote Green, it was unfornate not to see them score a 
seat. On a positive, they did pop up on teh CBC radar at one point in 
the evening. Apparently they jumped into the lead at one point, which 
was cool enough. They even managed to get 3rd place in some ridings, 
another positive.

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