Elizabeth May is a joke. She should be running on the Island where she might have a chance to win. She has a Lose Wish. That is why it looks like she will run against McKay.

I think someone is trying to make the Greens play Ralph Nader to Stephane Dion's Al Gore.

I don't like to repeat myself, but an arrangement between Elizabeth May and the Liberals has been kind of obvious ever since last Fall's London North byelection.

May was helped in her bid for the Green leadership by some of the leaders of the better financed environmental NGOs here in Vancouver. These same NGO leaders are furious with the NDP because they think that Jack Layton and Nathan Cullen failed to properly consult with them before deciding to work for improvements to the Clean Air Act instead of forcing an immediate general election. They want the NDP squished, and that's what they plan to do by propelling environmental voters away from the NDP and towards the Greens.

Deflating the NDP by taking away environmental voters then opens the door for the Liberals to pick up other chunks of the NDP vote. Hence the arrangement between Greens and Liberals.

A naive type might wonder why the leaders of the better financed environmental NGOs would have prefered a general election to improved environmental legislation. The answer is simple. The leaders of these organizations have come to the conclusion that the economic interests of their organizations, and their contributor base and employees, are best served by an immediate return to Liberal rule.

Budd, that has to be the craziest theory I have ever heard. Not since So I Married an Axe Murderer where Mike Myers Dad (played by Myers) suggest something slightly more paranoid.

Who are the other members of this
pentaverate?

STUART
The Queen, the Rothchilds, the Gettys,
the Vatican, and Colonel Sanders
before he went tits up. Oh, I hated
the Colonel with his wee beady eyes.
And that smug look on his face.

I know of one environmental organization in Vancouver that reports its annual revenue as $6 million. One million of that is used to, ... wait for it, ... fundraise.