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A few days ago – against the wishes of party leader Elizabeth May – the
Greens passed an antisemitic resolution making itself the first officially
racist party in Canada, and I called on May to resign (here).
Seems she heard me. According to the CBC, if she can't get this
resolution reversed, she may indeed step down as leader.
From the CBC: Elizabeth May says she is questioning whether she can
continue in her role as leader of the Green Party, after its members voted in
favour of a resolution supporting sanctions against Israel, despite her own
opposition to it.
The Greens became Canada's first federal party to endorse the Boycott
Divestment and Sanctions movement during the party's biennial convention in
Ottawa over the weekend. Some Canadian Jewish groups denounced the Green Party
for supporting a boycott policy against Israel. The House of Commons condemned
the movement in February.
"I'm struggling with the question of whether I should continue as
leader or not, quite honestly," May told Rosemary Barton in an interview
with The National.
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"I'm quite certain most of our members don't support this policy,
but weren't fully engaged in the consensus building process we normally would
have had," she said.
"So if I can't find a way to bring that back and have the members
review it with a consensus decision-making process, then I have to profoundly
question whether I can continue as leader and that's obviously
heart-breaking."
Elizabeth May says she's going to reflect on her role as leader of the
Green Party after its members voted to endorse the Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions movement, which she says is an 'extremely distressing' policy. (Green
Party of Canada)
May added that a review could be possible if she stepped down as leader.
"One way to bring it forward is under our constitution if I step
down, then we have to have a leadership convention sooner and they could deal
with this issue," she said. "I mean there are other options that we
are looking at that I'm trying to figure out if there's a way that… we can
review this through some other mechanism."
"I don't have great answers for you now because I'm struggling with
this," she said.
May had earlier said Tuesday morning in an interview with CBC Radio's On
the Island she would take the next week off and "doing a lot of
reflecting."
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