Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May says Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative government are undermining democracy.
She made the comments during an interview at the party’s nomination meeting in Bruce Grey Owen Sound last week.
May tells Bayshore Broadcasting News there are a number of reasons why she believes the Conservatives are bad for Canada.
May says the party’s attack ads are designed to turn off voters — and she believes the Conservatives’ goal is to reduce the number of people who will bother to vote.
She points to the 2008 election as evidence, saying it was an unnecessary campaign that lasted the minimum number of days.
The election itself happened the day after Thanksgiving, further reducing the number of people who went to the polls.
As it turned out, the voter turnout was a record low 59 per cent, down from 64 per cent less than two years earlier.
Her words were echoed by Emma Jane Hogbin and Lynn Morgan, the two women who contested the Green nomination in Bruce Grey Owen Sound.
Hogbin — who won the nomination — says the government has consistently acted in such a way that citizens no longer feel engaged in the political process.
