A packed audience greeted Green Party leader Elizabeth May at Cates Hill Chapel last Friday evening.
May read from her book, Who We Are, and told the audience about the experience of being locked down in her small office in Ottawa just two days prior, when a soldier was shot on Parliament Hill.
“I was really scared but I had to put on a good show for my interns,” said May. “It was a day of violence, terror, pain and panic, but I don’t want it turned into an excuse to do more violence on this country.”
Following the reading from her book, which was copy-edited by local council candidate Maureen Nicholson, the audience had a chance to ask May questions.
She gave her perspective on the possibility of Stephen Harper calling a snap election (he will find a way, if the timing is advantageous to him, she said) and low voter turn out (it’s not just young people who aren’t voting, it’s aging people who’ve decided that the system stinks.)
