Interesting day on Parliament Hill. Many great points made by one Elizabeth May:
May takes a very different view. She put it this way, in relation to Warawa’s question of privilege.
“We are not here as teams. The principle of Westminster parliamentary democracy is that we are here are representatives of our constituencies and our constituents,” she told the House, “Incidentally, we are merely members of political parties. Political parties do not exist in our Constitution. They are not an essential part of our democracy. They have grown to be seen to be the most interesting thing going on and we have grown to see politics as some sort of sport. However, democracy is not a sport. We are not playing on teams, and each individual member has individual rights…”
This is what this is about. Do individual Members of Parliament have rights? I believe they do.
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Elizabeth May as political ally. Who’d a thunk it.
May turned out to be a disappointment. She went from having a rather reasonable (if one can call it that) opinion on “choice” (i.e., in case of mitigating circumstances), to (once she became an MP and Head of the Green Party) abortion for all — any time, any where. I wonder if she still holds the former view, but as a female politician feels that she must spout the boring, old-school rhetoric about a woman’s body, etc., etc.
I’ve always figured Elizabeth May as a prolifer, with exceptions. She’s made several comments to that extent. The problem was, when she made those comments, the abortion advocates rose up as a monolith and said some very nasty things. And because the discussion got so ugly so quickly, none of the rest of us wanted to dive into the sewage and help her out. She figured, by that, that she needed to say she was pro choice in order to get elected, so that’s what she said.
Pretty sure she would be a good ally herself. Not so sure how that would play out with the rest of her party, though.
Do we have any Greens here who are up on the inside politics there?