A by-election has been called for electing a new Member of Parliament in Guelph on September 8, 2008. This is the election that will witness that Guelph is Going Green.
WHAT IS IT WORTH for the Green Party to win in the upcoming by-elections?
In the 1988 federal election the Reform Party won 275,000 votes and no seats – and then in the subsequent 1993 general election, the party won 2.5 million votes and 52 seats, missing becoming the official opposition by just two seats. How could the party jump from no seats to 52 seats? And win almost 10 times more votes? One simple thing.
In between the elections the Reform Party won a single seat in a by-election. Deb Grey became the lone voice in Parliament arguing for the party's position. Then in the subsequent election Reform leader Preston Manning was included in the debates – millions of Canadians heard the Reform message and the party won almost 10 times more votes. We are on the precipice of that same shift. Simply winning a seat will guarantee that Elizabeth May will be included in the televised leaders' debates. The by-election presents a very real opportunity to win that first seat.
Make history this September and elect Mike Nagy as Canada's first GREEN MP!
Green is the Future - it is YOUR movement.
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