Elisabeth May,a good sign for a green Canada

August 29, 2006

Green Party is entering its Elizabethan age

Choice of former Sierra Club director is a trade up in leadership

This weekend, Elisabeth May the 52-year-old environmental activist was elected the
national leader of the Green Party and plans to put together a platform
that will win her new party seats in the next federal election.

Ms. May is the single mother of a 15-year-old teenager, Victoria
Cate, who her mother said is beginning to show signs of being an
activist or politician in the making.

Ms. May’s mother, Stephanie, was a lobbyist and an organizer for the
U.S. Democrats. In the 1970s, she befriended a young Bill Clinton, when
he was a law-school student at Yale. Both Ms. May’s mother and Mr.
Clinton were working for George McGovern, who lost the presidential bid
to incumbent Richard Nixon.

However, Mr. Clinton became a family friend. Earlier this year,
after reading a newspaper article saying that Ms. May was seeking the
leadership of the Green Party, he contacted her.

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