Photo: Colombia’s surging ‘Green Wave’ – Green Party candidate takes the lead in Colombian Presidential Elections in 2010
Tsunami Warning: a Green Wave is set to sweep across British Columbia!
When
the right-wing rag the National Post runs a puff-piece supporting the Greens (as they did yesterday) you know the Green
Wave is reaching tsunami proportions!
The Green Wave is being spearheaded by BC Green Party leader Jane Sterk and federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
During the federal election in 2011 it was a 'Tangerine Tide' which swept across Canada as the NDP made history as the official oppostion in what was dubbed the 'Orange Crush'.
Now it is the NDP's turn to be swept away by the rising Green Wave!
Despite the NDP's desperate attempts to invoke the spirit of Jack Layton, the BC NDP leader Adrian Dix has come under fire for his watered-down policy on salmon. Dix is a desperately disappointing damb squib compared to Layton the leader who stood tall on salmon.
In fact, the BC NDP's election platform is embarrassingly weak when it comes to specifics on salmon (click online here – and then search for "salmon" and there's only two mentions in 70 pages of NDP policy promises!).
Read more via "The NDP's Salmon Sell Out – Money Talks, Adrian Dix Doesn't!"
The only thing green about the NDP is the color of money – and their shameful acceptance of thousands of dollars from the disease-ridden salmon farming industry. A look at all the donors to the NDP reveals over $10,000 in donations
from the BC Salmon Farmers Association and the salmon farming giant
Grieg Seafood – with five donations from the BCSFA since 2006 including $6,700 in 2012 alone.
Norwegian-owned Grieg Seafood donated a further $1,125 during 2012.
Read more via "The NDP's Salmon Sell Out – Money Talks, Adrian Dix Doesn't!"
No wonder the NDP is leaking votes to the Greens. Salmon champion Alexandra Morton posted on Facebook's 'Salmon Are Sacred' page yesterday:
Read more via "NDP salmon feedlot policy – Impractical – in-fact Impossible"
Film-maker Twyla Roscovich, producer of 'Salmon Confidential', also vented her frustration at the NDP:
Facebook was buzzing over the weekend with many people switching from the NDP to the Greens:
When polled on the most trustworthy leader, the Green Party's leader Jane Sterk beats other leaders hands down.
Salmon hero Eddie Gardner is so disillushioned at the weak stance of the NDP on salmon farms that he is voting Green tomorrow!
As Dix evades the issue, the Greens continue to gain ground on the
NDP. Dix can run but he cannot hide his party's piss-poor policy on
salmon farming.
In a press release issued last month (20 April), Green Party leader Jane Sterk made the Green position crystal clear:
"The dramatic decline of BC’s wild salmon began when fish farms were
introduced," said Sterk. "Wild salmon cannot be saved until open net fish farms are
removed from migration routes, because of their deadly role in spreading
disease and parasites"
Read online via "Green Party steps forward with urgently needed fish farm policy"
A sure sign that the Greens are making headway in British Columbia is the backlash from the NDP and the Liberal Party. CTV News reported (11 May):
The Liberals took out a full-page ad in a Victoria newspaper Friday urging left-leaning voters to vote Green instead of for the NDP – potentially splitting the vote, allowing the Liberals to breeze up the middle.
The issue of vote-splitting also dominated social media as Facebook's 'Salmon Are Sacred' page debated the subject:
Read more via "Why voting Green DOESN’T “split the vote”"
A green breakthrough in British Columbia would open the floodgates to more MLAs. In Scotland, the green wave started with one Member of the Scottish Parliament but then spawned seven MSPs in the next election. In 1999, Scottish Green Robin Harper became the first Green elected, after the British government had approved the use of proportional representation for parliamentary election there. In 2003, six more Greens were elected, giving the party seven MSPs (Members of Scottish Parliament) in the 129 member body.
In Canada, Elizabeth May made political history by becoming the first Green MP when she won a seat in the 2011 federal election.
Make political history in BC tomorrow by voting for wild salmon – go Green and join the green wave sweeping British Columbia!
Read more on the BC election via:
- Silent But Deadly Dix – Dexter in Disguise?
- Dix Finally Speaks – Too Little, Too Late?
- Time for Dix to Nix Salmon Feedlots
- The NDP's Salmon Sell Out – Money Talks, Adrian Dix Doesn't!
- Is the NDP the Liberal Party in disguise? Go Green for Wild Salmon!
- Message to the NDP – Cut the Crap on Salmon Farming!