Jonny5
Senior Member
This is some drama, I'm not sure it's explicitly stated in The Star article above, but from the CBC today:
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Green Party of Canada: Leadership Race
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Richard White
Senior Member
Annamie Paul is f***ing nuts.
afransen
Senior Member
I don't understand why people are being so sympathetic with her experience. Perhaps the Green Party is as awful as she says, but she is also a terrible politician and had no business taking the job.
picard102
Senior Member
Careful, if she sees this you'll be labeled a racist misogynist.
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christiesplits
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When it rains it pours.
www.thestar.com
Green Party lays off core staff members amid financial drought, internal strife
Layoffs are once again hitting the Green Party as party brass look to shave costs at an organization facing persistent financial and political woes.
www.thestar.com
Towered
Superstar
Is Paul gone yet??
Northern Light
Superstar
Nope.
Green Leader Annamie Paul still hasn’t officially resigned. Now her party is again trying to force her out
It’s the latest development in the bitter and drawn-out power struggle that erupted inside the party over the past year, with Paul’s supporters alleging she faced unjustified resistance from top Green officials, and her opponents charging Paul tried to assert undue control in a party that prides...
www.thestar.com
From the article:
Towered
Superstar
It just keeps getting worse: Former Green Party leader Jim Harris calls Paul's tenure as leader "disastrous"
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I think nobody can argue with that (they lost a seat, they got far fewer votes overall, they are close to bankruptcy, they have a leader who resigned but is still there .......) . - the (possible) question is whose fault that was.
Jonny5
Senior Member
How is she still the leader five weeks after resigning? What kind of odd governance setup do they have in that party? I thought they were much more into grassroots democracy, but apparently they have an autocrat in control somehow?
Towered
Superstar
Apparently there's a battle with regards to reimbursing Paul's legal expenses incurred during the party's push to oust her as leader prior to the election.
John_Dee
Active Member
It takes major-league chutzpah to expect the party to reimburse her legal fees when she's the one responsible for this mess to begin with. And that doesn't even take into account how dreadfully the Greens did under her so-called leadership.
picard102
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AlvinofDiaspar
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Is she done done?
www.thestar.com
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It’s official: Annamie Paul says she’s finally finished as leader of the Green party
Paul announced Wednesday that she has submitted her notice of resignation as Green party leader. She also stated that she will be ending her membership in the party she led for the past 13 months — a period that was defined by bitter infighting and efforts to depose her by top officials in her...
www.thestar.com
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Jonny5
Senior Member
Sounds like it's for real this time. The party put out a press release today that they are looking to appoint an interim leader now, and the new leader will be elected six months to the day after the interim leader is appointed, meaning sometime around late May or early June.Is she done done?
It’s official: Annamie Paul says she’s finally finished as leader of the Green party
Paul announced Wednesday that she has submitted her notice of resignation as Green party leader. She also stated that she will be ending her membership in the party she led for the past 13 months — a period that was defined by bitter infighting and efforts to depose her by top officials in her...
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Six months is an eternity in a minority government situation though. They will miss out on a lot here. If Paul had just left they could be almost two months in to that process already with a convention around Easter.
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