HKLB Green Party Association

This will be my last post on this page. Congratulations to Elizabeth May and her team for a stunning victory in Saanich - Gulf Islands. Congratulations to Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party. We will be watching carefully to see if they walk the talk. Congratulations to Jamie Schmale and his team locally. I hope he remembers that the biggest cheer for any of the candidates at the all-candidates debates was when I said "It's time to unmuzzle our scientists and let them tell... us what's really going on loud and clear". His constituents want to hear what scientists have been trying to tell us for a decade. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who voted for the Green Party yesterday. To my team - there were 48 of us locally who helped in some way - thanks for the enthusiasm and time you gave to the cause. I quite literally could not have done it without you. I have heard of other Green Party candidates who had as few as two volunteers. Many of you are old friends, and many others have become really good new friends. There are so many great people I have come to know through this process - that's a big takeaway for me. Thanks very much as well to all of you who donated financially to our campaign, from within and outside the riding. Although we had a lot less money than the other parties locally, we had enough to feel like we were "in the game" here. Thanks to my wife Susan who not only kept working to pay our bills while I was obsessed by the campaign, she was our Official Agent and main compliance person, while also holding things together on the homefront. I am a lucky guy. It is she who has the most work to do post-campaign filing our expenses and reports. My turn to step up on the homefront. I am very pleased to have been part of the very first carbon neutral political campaign this riding has ever experienced. We planted 500 saplings, I distributed 1,950 red oak acorns and Ric Christie refurbished 400 old signs for us, keeping them out of the landfill. To the 200+ people who have a Green Party sign on their lawn, there are 20 of us engaged in retrieving them over the next couple of days. If your lawn sign is still in your lawn by Friday, please pull it out and call 705-927-6688 for one of us to come and get it... and thank you for showing your support for the Green Party. And thank you once again to all our supporters. Keep the faith. See more

I am so sorry about tonight's results. You have represented the party and the municipality well. People now know who you are, they will remember. I think the election today was about change and Ms. May said it well; people voted to change the face of parliament this time, next time they will be able to vote the way they feel called to.

If you need a lift to your poll today, or know of someone who does, give us a call at 705-927-6688 asap

I just want to say THANK YOU to Haliburton - Kawartha Lakes - Brock for welcoming me and our volunteers on your doorstep since April. I have had my faith in humanity re-affirmed by the courtesy, concern for the environment and respect shown to us by the vast majority of you...