Thursday, May 18, 2006

On possibilities

Duncan Cameron kicks around the idea than an Elizabeth May-led Green Party would be ripe for a merger with the NDP. It's certainly an idea worth contemplating, but in casting May as the left's Peter MacKay Cameron doesn't appear to take into account the degree to which former PCs abandoned MacKay following the merger.

If there's a meaningful chance to actually bring together a substantial majority of both parties, then the cause might well be worth pursuing. But assuming that the Harrisites within the Green Party would prefer to move elsewhere, it's far from clear that either party would gain influence from a merger...and it seems likely that each party's efforts would be better placed trying to build on existing support.

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