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Canada has not yet had a Green Party government. Seeing TWO PRIME MINISTERS endorse this book, I recognized the extraodinary praise: they had to come from different parties! Paul Martin & Joe Clark. Good grief, author Farley Mowat is Victoria Cate's Godfather? Jane Goodall played with her as a baby? Bill Clinton wrote Elizabeth's recommendation letter for Canadian law school? What a lady and an excellent book!

I see how supressing Stephen Harper was and that climate change is no debatable possibility. He killed the progress Kyoto was making, for all United Nations! Denial campaigns were strong enough that I too, wondered how certain scientific results are. Ice core bubbles tell us atmospheric carbon dioxide didn't pass 280 parts-per-million for a million years. We are the first Earth beings to breathe air with 410 PPM!

Instruction in how governments work that I am glad to have. This was made autobiographical along the way, thus very good reading even though I need to absorb several patches slowly. Training braincells to learn social concepts. Some still failing to make sense, given a political group's stupidity in arguing useless notions forward. I feel that commonsense would sing out clearly if people read this knowledge book.

I sought to acquaint the lady for whom we vote. This book validates us. Many more like Elizabeth May's grace, intellect, experience, and determination than dare vote for her due to this party being small;
erroneously believing votes should and can block unwanted big parties. I learned that is not how "first past the post" works. Our system counts provincial seats won, not all of our votes! Best to truly choose.

I knew our country was impacted for too many years by Stephen Harper's dictatorship style, whom I greeted with an open heart because here at last was a prairie prime minister. Always one for detail, Elizabeth explains the fast damage of his arrival. Pushing out prime minister Paul Martin and Canada's Kyoto accord contract, right after all in the United Nations fought tough odds to make membership a legal agreement!

I knew Canada's green party leader was American, her parents moving them to Nova Scotia. It is magical there! I did not know her Mom was an activist; against nuclear testing etc. She knew Bill & Hillary in university, whose daughter acquainted them. How cool is this? Elizabeth's letter of recommendation to law university in Halifax, was from future US president Bill Clinton! Highly connected in both countries.

Startling information about my homeland. Full of heart and pride but examining how bad Stephen Harper's very long administration was for us, which certainly felt like a dictatorship, is scary. I look forward to learning more about Elizabeth May, our ideal leader if only people would stop hesitating to elect a presently small party. I thought she must be vegetarian but how nice, to confirm she is. :)