Outgoing provincial Green leader Adriane Carr may still be tight-lipped about her future ambitions. But the chattering classes are already asking why Ms. Carr would leave a paying gig for an unpaid one - if indeed she becomes federal party leader Elizabeth May's deputy as is rumoured? Answer: because it's no longer unpaid. At their most recent convention, federal Greens passed a resolution authorizing the party to "immediatetly develop a remuneration plan for at least one Deputy Leader, at least one of which will be of the opposite gender to the leader." Those deputy leader postings are presently listed as vacant on the Green's Website. The following is a complete copy of that resolution.
G06-d23: Deputy Leader Remuneration
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Green Party of Canada will immediately develop a remuneration plan for at least one Deputy Leader, at least one of which will be of opposite gender to the leader and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT if funds are not immediately available, the Party will make extra efforts to raise the funds required.
Actually, the only riding where GP ran second in the last fed election was in ALBERTA, ironically.
As for Carr, until the day we have MMP in our voting system like Japan does (which I support), she will never step a foot in the legislature, anywhere.
The way I read the resolution, they could put Adriane and a token male in there and give Adrian the money.
The Deputy leader that needs to be the opposite sex isn't neccessarily the one that needs to be paid.