Earlier, we reported former Sierra Club of Canada executive director Elizabeth May has been soliciting senior Greens for their support as part of her bid to become leader of the federal Greens. But she didn't seem nearly as an interested in the world of politics back in December. In an interview with The Ottawa Citizen's Kate Jaimet, Ms. May was quoted as saying she's come close to running for Parliament "a couple of times and the main reason I haven't done it has always been concern for my daughter. In the last election, I was asked by the NDP and the Liberals and I was thinking it over, but the election would be right during the time she was doing final exams. If I was going to run, I was thinking about (running in) Nova Scotia. Leaving here as a single mother, when my daughter is doing her final exams in Grade 8, isn't something I'm going to do."

"If I was a man, and I was married, and there was a wife to take care of the kids and the house, I probably would have run by now. I think the time that I came closest was right after John Ralston Saul had written one of his great, intellectually rigorous pieces about how NGOs are never going to change the world because we stay outside of the partisan political system."

"It's not like I don't have the option, and I do think about it, but when it comes down to it, what it would mean for my own life: I don't have savings, I work for a very low income, and I'm a single mom of a daughter. To take a chance, to quit my job, to run for politics, if you win, it's going to be even harder to be a single mom, and do a good job at being a mom. And on the other hand if you lose...(there's) the potential to be both unemployed and broke, and condemned forever to the label of partisan, to any party."