The Green Party of Canada’s long -time leader Elizabeth May announced his intention to step down earlier this week, a step that he hopes that he would rejuvenate the party.
“I think some knowledge comes with experience and age potentially, but I think it is healthy to renew in any organization, to see new people on board, to take interest in new people,” May said.
“A leadership race does this.”
May, who first took the leadership in 2006, has orchestrated some landmark moments for the party and oversee – including his own choices for the House of Commons.
“I defeated a sitting member of Stephen Harper’s cabinet to become the first elected green in Canada,” he said.
“So there is a David-and-Goliath moment, and David won.”
As she sees to pass the torch, May says her main priority is that she is to avoid staggering as she says that she did this when she stepped briefly in 2019 – a step that she now calls “destructive”.
He said, “We had the most successful choice yet; we elected three green members of Parliament,” he said.
“I thought,” this is a nice, strong position in which we are, I will step down. ” But I did it immediately, I just stepped down and now there was no leader, and we had an interim leader. ,
May says that the party has been rebuilding since then.
This time, one can expect to remain a leader until a race is held to ensure with a smooth hand. She says that despite the challenges, this is an attractive job list.
“In the history of our country, we do not have a time where an American president, whom we thought as a colleague, have been so infallible and a threat,” he said.
“So if you care about your country, this is a good time to take this step. And if you are like me and you are a grandparents, and you are looking at the climate crisis, then now is a good time to move the step.”
Meanwhile, May says that it is planning to continue the representation of Greens in Ottawa and try to keep in mind the liberal government.
“I have found some things that are cooking together that will be very exciting.”
May House of Commons is the only green MP, as the party won only one seat in the federal election.
– With files from Canadian press.