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5 unusual facts about Green Party of Canada


Dyke baronets

In 2008, the tenth Baronet ran in the 40th Canadian General Election as the Green Party candidate for Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, Ontario.

Green Party of Canada

Sonya Chandler was elected municipally to Victoria City Council in Victoria BC in 2005, and re-elected with her co-candidate Philippe Lucas in 2010 - both under the Green Party banner (noted on the ballot)

The second-place finisher David Chernushenko, an environmental consultant, owner of Green & Gold Inc. and two time candidate, collected 1,096 votes or 33.3 per cent of the total, while Jim Fannon, real estate agent at RE/MAX Garden City Realty, four time candidate and founder of Nature's Hemp finished a distant third, collecting just 29 votes or 0.88 per cent of the vote.

During the 2004 federal election the Green Party of Canada became the fourth federal political party ever to run candidates in all the ridings.

The party broke 1% of the popular vote in the 2004 federal election, when it received 4.3% and qualified for federal funding.


3rd Summit of the Americas

Intelligence operations prior to the event were also criticized, For example, Joan Russow, then leader of the Green Party of Canada, was arrested while attempting to photograph the prison where protesters would be held.

Canadian leaders debates

The five participants were Conservative leader and incumbent prime minister Stephen Harper, Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, NDP leader Jack Layton, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, and Green Party leader Elizabeth May.

Yvan Dutil

He was a candidate for the Green Party of Quebec in the Quebec election of September 2008, and for the Green Party of Canada in the Canadian federal election of 2011.


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Peter Bevan-Baker

Bevan-Baker joined the Green Party of Canada in 1992, and has run as a candidate for the Canadian House of Commons in the elections of 1993, 1997 and 2000 in the riding of Leeds/Grenville in Ontario, and 2008 and 2011 in Malpeque, PEI.