Back then, she appeared primed to vitalize a party that’s been but a blip on the political radar, winning only 4.5 per cent of the vote in the 2006 federal election.
The occasion is May’s annual Twelfth Night party in January 2007; her cozy, ramshackle house in Ottawa’s New Edinburgh neighbourhood is packed.
Former colleagues from May’s 17 years heading the Sierra Club of Canada mingle with new associates from the Green Party of Canada, of which she was elected leader in August 2006.
Behind the scenes, however, the Greens are a phosphate-free soap opera, riven by backbiting, infighting, and defections, including the departure of four executive directors since May has taken over.
The Greens’ new leader is alternatively heralded as the best or the worst thing to happen to the party.
No federal party holds a commanding lead in the polls.
Loyalties are shifting, as seen most recently in Quebec.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck Elizabeth May bustles through her crowded living room mother-hen-like, carrying a fish-shaped glass platter laden with canapés.
Everything’s ecologically correct, she jokes—the bread is homemade, the devilled eggs free-range, the smoked salmon and lobster wild.
At midnight, per tradition, the Balsam fir is stripped of decorations—of the angel fashioned from a Sunlight bottle, of the Star of David made of pipe cleaners—and tossed out the front door.
Circulating among her guests, a glass of white wine in hand, May describes her recent appearance on The Rick Mercer Report in which she chopped down a dead birch tree.
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