Hee, hee - Elizabeth May of the Green Party appeared on an episode of The Rick Mercer Report last year. (Actually, many politicians have been good sports about appearing on that show - even Conrad Black did a stint!)

Rick found a fellow who needed to cut down a tree to prevent it falling on his cottage. Perfect! The leader of the Green Party took the chainsaw and went at it with gusto! She was a hoot!

Remember - Ms. May won't have the same media pressure as she might in the US. You already know who the P and VP will be depending on which "side" gets the most votes.

Here, we have 5 parties running. Each has a leader - and the leader of the party that wins the most votes is Prime Minister. TECHNICALLY - the party leader could lose the vote in his own riding (electoral district). So we have NO idea who is in charge unless we stay up REALLY late Tuesday night, or until we wake up Wednesday morning!

Here she is:


An editorial cartoonist's dream!





http://www.greenparty.ca/en/about_us/elizabeth_may

A blog bit with some insipid comments:
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/b...-t-do-god.aspx


BTW - we HAVE had a female Prime Minister in Canada, Kim Campbell. She took over the reigns after Joe Clark resigned a number of years ago. Lasted 6 months til the next election...sheesh, we're nearly as bad as Italy!