Enjoy the unseasonably warm #Easter weather today — 17°c by 5pm! When I was a kid— heck, when my kid was a kid — it was more likely to be better weather for snow sculpture than sunbathing.
Try not to think about the fact it’s due to the #ClimateCatastrophe our governments are not doing anything to slow down (much less turn around). And here in Canada most of our elected politicians seem working hard to make it worse.
Still, as the awesome Green Party of Ontario suggests, eat your chocolate and enjoy the day. Plenty of time to call or write your MP and MPP Tuesday!
And if all you get from your MP or MPP are stalls or excuses, there will be time enough to elect more Greens soon enough!
[Still figuring out the Tumblr app … this was supposed to post on IWD2021].
Like the USA, Canada has a #WinnerTakeAll voting system, which makes it harder for people 3rd parties to get elected. But Canadians have stubbornly retained our multi-party system, because 2 parties aren’t enough to represent our diversity.
Many Canadians have long realized the Green Party is the best choice, but now more of us are voting Green, so more of us are electing Greens, too.
Ours is the only major Canadian federal political party to be led by women since 2006, something worthy of mention for the 2021 International Women’s Day.
And you know things are changing when Prince Edward Island— a province that has steadfastly clung to 2 party rule for its whole existence— elected its first Green in one election, and liked what they got so much elected another in the next by-election, then elected 8 Greens in the last general election. It was enough to form the province’s Official Opposition and reduce the ruling Liberals to third party status.
Best of all, 5 of the new MLAs are women, making this Opposition Party a majority of women. And as there are only 2 other women elected to the 27 member Legislative Assembly, the Green women form a majority of womem in the legislature!
