A lot of people have been telling us that they are outraged by Elizabeth May’s exclusion from the televised debates. It IS outrageous that a media consortium is determining how we conduct our democracy, and that the leader of a national party should be kept out of the debates based upon some shifting criteria that they don’t care to share with the public.

If you’d like to express your opinion about this, there are a number of good places to go:

Click here to vote in the CBC’s poll - currently 82% in favour.

Click here to sign the Green Party’s petition.

Send a text message to the Chair of the Media Consortium, Mr. Troy Reeb of Global TV on his cell phone at 647-261-3752

In the meantime, you might enjoy some one-on-one debates:

Elizabeth in a one-on-one with Gary Lunn on CTV’s Question Period. Click here to watch the video.

And finally, after Michael Ignatieff took up Stephen Harper’s challenge for a one-on-one debate and then Harper retreated, it seems that Rick Mercer has offered to host a one-on-one debate at Massey Hall: Watch the video here.

We’re getting a ton of support for the Elizabeth May campaign here on Saltspring - if you’d like to help out, drop me an email message.

Brian Smallshaw
250-653-9778
b@pixelmap.ca