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Federal Green Party Leader Steps Down

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Annamie Paul has stepped down as leader of the Green Party of Canada.

Speaking Monday morning in Toronto, Paul told reporters that with a leadership review looming she won’t spend any more time playing politics.

“I just will not spend any more time focused on political games as opposed to public policy,” says Paul, “Which is what I entered politics for in the first place, particularly at a time when it is so needed.”

She says that with what she calls a struggle for the soul of the party going on, she just doesn’t have the heart to continue.

“I just asked myself whether this is something I wanted to continue. Whether I was willing to continue to put up with the attacks I knew would be coming, whether to continue having to fight and struggle just to fulfil my democratically-elected role as leader of this party.”

Paul tells us that she knew it would be an uphill battle as leader from the moment she took on the role.

“When I was elected and put in this role I was breaking a glass ceiling. What I didn’t realize at the time was that I was breaking a glass ceiling that was going to fall on my head and leave a lot of shards of glass that I was going to have to crawl over throughout my time as leader.”

She explains that she knew the pressure was there on Election Day even hours before the polls closed.

“On the day of the election itself, in the morning, the only email that I received from our council…the president of our council…was an email calling for an emergency meeting to launch a leadership review.”

On election night Paul finished third in her riding of Toronto Centre.

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Federal Leaders Make Pitches As Advance Voting Begins

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We are entering the final ten days of the federal election campaign as advance polls open across Canada.

In Ottawa before heading home to his British Columbia riding to vote, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh believes his party offers the best option for voters.

“We’re saying we’re not going to cut the help you need. We’re not going to put the burden back on you. We’re going to offer a third option which is to make the billionaires pay their fair share.”

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau made another pitch for his party’s $10 per day child care plan in Hamilton, Ontario.

“To save families across the country, thousands and thousands of dollars per year.”

During a stop in Mississauga, Erin O’Toole says the Conservatives have the only viable pandemic recovery plan.

“To recover a million jobs… to tackle Canada’s mental health crisis with a new mental health action plan… to protect the health of Canadians.”

During a rare campaign stop outside of her Toronto area riding, Green Party leader Annamie Paul was in Ottawa where she told supporters her party will not forget about Canadians who were thrown into financial crisis when the pandemic began.

People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier is campaigning in the West with a public rally and a meet and greet planned in Edmonton on Saturday.

Meantime, the advance polls will be open this weekend and on Monday.

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Green Party Slams Vaccine “Stockpiling”

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The federal Green Party is calling out the Liberals’ decision to use the COVAX vaccine-sharing program meant for poorer countries.

Canada has donated to the international program, but is also accepting almost 1.9-million doses from it.

Green Leader Annamie Paul says it isn’t the right thing to do.

“We know that for many poor countries, this is the only source of vaccines, the only supply of vaccines available to them. And despite this, Canada continues to insist that it will take its 1.9-million doses, that yes, we are entitled to, but of course we should not be taking,” she says.

Paul points out the World Health Organization says actions like Canada’s are compromising the COVAX vaccine supply for other nations.

She adds that will come back to hurt Canada, along with countries that rely on the sharing program.

If we do not bring the pandemic under control globally, then people in Canada will not be safe,” Paul claims.

In February, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended the decision by pointing out the country has the legal right to access COVAX.