The emblematic federal seat of the Green Party of Canada, occupied by a parliamentary award of BC, could be in danger of being surpassed by the issue of the rate and sovereignty in the current federal elections.
Talking to voters in the streets in the driving of the islands of the Gulf of Saanich, one defined by its natural beauty by the sea and the aware voters of the environment, many of which are retired, doubts about whether the current green deputy Elizabeth can win again.
“It won’t be green, it won’t be NDP,” said a Saanich resident to CBC News. “Here there is a little conservative,” said another.
Elizabeth May has been the deputy in the islands of the Gulf of Saanich since 2011 and is looking for re -election in 2025, in her record as a parliamentarian involved in the community and defender of the Environment.
Uncertainty is the result that this choice has a problem of excess scope so far. Who between liberals and conservatives can form the government and react better to the economic and sovereignty threat that represents Canada from the president of the United States, Donald Trump?
According to some activists, that clouds the candidacy of Elizabeth May, as she has repeatedly handled, and won, with the promise of being a locally committed parliamentarian and a defender of environmentalism and solutions to climate change.
Even the most hardcore green voters in the Saanich-Gulf Islands vote to ensure that one party or other formulates a majority?
“The strategic vote … can kill us,” said David Merner, who lives in Sooke BC, on the island of Vancouver and was a 2015 liberal candidate and then ran for the greens in 2019.
“I think Elizabeth May will face a real challenge,” he said. “I think he will win, but he is in a true battle.”
The May challenge is the liberal David Beckham, an expert in environmental remediation and renewable energy, the Cathie Ounsted of the conservative, former councilor and president of the Board of Directors of the Authority of the Airport of Victoria and the Colin Plant of the NDP, which has been a teacher in the Saanich school district for 25 years.
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How tight is the race?
Some surveys show that they can currently fulfill third place behind the conservatives and Beckham of the liberals, but May’s campaign says that surveys such as 338anada are misleading because they look at the results of the past elections, which they tend to the national level and then provide an aggregate projection.
“I don’t put much confidence in the surveys,” May told CBC News for recently while campaigning in Saanich.
“When I was chosen here in 2011, there was not a single survey that thought I had a chance, so I based more on what I heard on the street when I go from door to door.”
In the conduction of the Saanich Gulf Islands, held by the Federal Verde Party for more than a decade, the environment is being in the background in this election. Renee Lukacs analyzes the way voters are already tilting what the game faces.
May has forged a unique position for her and her group in the House of Commons, working on the lines of the party and framing as a powerful voice that tells governments.
“In this driving, having the voice of Elizabeth in Parliament is much more powerful than having the candidate of another party that is automatically told to say the party line,” he read a recent statement of his campaign. “They are not an independent voice that can represent their concerns.”
The greens say that the surveys that were in charge of May with 41 percent of the voters determined ahead of the Ouinsted with 28 percent and Beckham with 22 percent.
The CBC News survey tracker is currently projecting to the Greens to win a seat in British Columbia and ontario, where it currently also has a seat.
People who live and work in riding, May has been a firm defender of Saanich and the Gulf Islands, where there are several local problems that have federal jurisdiction, such as the anchor of shipping ships, health and well -being of the murderous whales in the area and the acquisition of land for preservation.
‘Popular candidate’
“The environment is still huge,” said Terry Shepherd about the priorities of local voters for this election.
Shepherd, who lives in Pender Island, is currently president of the house of the southern neighborhood of the Gulf Islands and has committed his time with many social services agencies and community groups.
“May is a really popular candidate,” said Shepherd. “I think most of the people I have spoken still want the Green Party to be chosen. We see some more conservative signals on the island.”
Both Shepherd and Jennifer Lannan-Emekoba, owner of the Osisi boutique in Saltspring Island, said that both have received personal help from May due to immigration problems, a testimony of how committed it is locally with its components.
“I think we must remember everything he has done in the past,” said Lannan-Emekoba. “As constituents, we must ask ourselves if any of the other candidates will go to work as hard as it clearly.”
Other candidates will have the opportunity to convince voters such as Lannan-Emekoba of ESO at an upcoming candidate meeting on April 19 in Saanich.
