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By Amandalina Letterio

FEDERAL ELECTION

Elizabeth May calls Kamloops a ‘crucible of climate emergency and truth and reconciliation’

Aug 31, 2021 | 4:23 PM

KAMLOOPS — Former federal leader of the Green Party, Elizabeth May, passed through Kamloops on Tuesday (Aug. 31) to show her support for local Green Party candidate Iain Currie.

May is currently running for re-election as MP for the Sannich-Gulf Islands riding, where she currently lives; she met up with Currie at a community garden on the North Shore.

“Canadians are going to be voting Green in ever larger numbers, because the climate crisis is no longer some theoretical possibility — it’s our daily news headlines,” May told CFJC News.

She thinks the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo needs a Green MP to advocate for the region in Ottawa.

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“Kamloops has been through a lot this year, and wildfires and heat dome — it’s really a crucible of climate emergency and truth and reconciliation,” May explained.

Currie says when May stepped back as leader, it showed her generosity in allowing the Green Party to grow — and they have plans to, “move in the same direction, but with new leadership and new voices,” said Currie.

The new leader taking May’s place is Annamie Paul, who is campaigning out of Toronto and controversially has not visited anywhere else in Canada during the election.

“This is not a great time to be jetting around the country when we have new restrictions, new public health measures,” May said in Paul’s defense.

She added that she believes this election should not have happened with the current state of our country and world.

“I do not believe this election should have happened. Not during a fourth wave, not during a climate emergency. Not on the day that Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. We do not need an election, but we’re in it and what we need is change — and that change is electing Iain Currie,” said May.