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August 13, 2015

Politicians trump people

Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell said an election is no time to discuss social policy but one would think an exception should be made for an abortifacient which endangers the lives of women and unborn children.

Green Party leader Elizabeth May made the perceptive point recently that democracy is too important to be left only to politicians. A nuance that might be added is that as a keystone of democracy, free, fair and above all vigorous elections should never become the exclusive preserve of the political actors seeking to benefit from them.

Published in Peter Stockland
March 29, 2012

Green Party leader Elizabeth May names “econo-theism” as Canada’s national faith

At the Green Choices for Faith Communities conference, Elizabeth May told delegates if you’re not talking dollars and cents the government won’t listen.

TORONTO - Canada is not a secular state. It is ruled by "econo-theism," Green Party leader Elizabeth May told a March 25 interfaith conference in Toronto.

“We worship the economy,” May told delegates to the Green Choices for Faith Communities conference at the Noor Cultural Centre.

The conference organized by Greening Sacred Spaces and the Green Awakening Network included presentations on political activism for churches, spirituality, solar power for Churches and modern lighting systems to cut energy use.

Published in Canada: Toronto-GTA