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Has the Green Party ever been elected ?

The Green Party has been elected before.

If you're asking provincially, no, they have never won a seat.  
 
If you're asking federally, then yes, they have won a couple of seats. They have never formed government or the official opposition.  
 
If you're asking just generally, the answer is still yes, and in PEI they form the official opposition. There was also that mass defection of NDP to the Green Party just this past week in New Brunswick, but I'm not sure how that might play into the balance of power there.

No, we don't elect parties.

You're technically correct - we elect representatives, and the "team" with the most representatives usually form government, with the runner-up usually makes up the official opposition . But we usually refer to that colloquially as "being elected".  
 
#englishisweird

Only as weird as the people that speak it.

I vote first for the Prime Minister. 2nd for the Party that represents my view. The local representative is but a side effect of those choices. It doesn't matter if its the local representative whose name is on the ballet. The only use the local representatives name is to me is to help me identify which vote will go to my choice of Prime Minister or party.  
I wish the system was different, that I could vote for the local representative without it effecting the vote for prime minister. We should elect a prime minister separately from local representatives and do away with parties. let the local representatives vote according to the locals they represent instead of party lines. The Party system is not really a beneficial system overall. All it does is give more power to incumbents, and the political elite.

While, the Green Party hasn't formed a majority governement or an opposition in Manitoba, there are representatives (MLA's).  
 
Brandon West has a Green Party candidate if you're interested. His name is Robert Brown. And while he may be new, he does genuinely care about the consituents and what's best for them.

We went to the debate at the Little Teaching Lodge put on by the Brandon Friendship Centre.  
 
Both Green party candidates seemed sincere but Robert did concern me with their platform of increasing the carbon tax to 30 dollars a tonne and increasing it every year by 10 dollars. Holy crap, can we afford this tax going up that much? Robert did say that the carbon tax would be put into health care and that there would be plenty of cash to work with. Which tells me right there that the tax is nothing but a cash grab!

Thanks for attending the public forum!  
 
I appreciate your honesty and input into the discussion.  
 
I had actually said that the carbon price would be raised by $30/tonne, which effectively sets it at $50 per tonne in 2020 and then raised by $10 each year after.  
 
The current carbon price is too low to be effective in changing consumer habits as well as the habits of industry.  
 
A carbon price is meant to hurt. The idea is to both change industry habits and consumer habits toward greener production and lifestyles.  
 
Half of the money from the proposed carbon price will be placed back into the healthcare system, while the other half will be spent on green initiatives.  
 
It is also important to note that we intend to put 10% of health care spending toward mental health and addictions initiatives.  
 
Have a great day!  
 
Robert Brown  
 
Edited by Robert D. Brown, 2019-09-08 17:00:03

You do realize that the Provincial Election happening now is not for the PM spot right?  
 
The Federal Election will be different, with federal representatives.

So how much of that $50+ per tonne of carbon tax goes towards EI for people who's livelihood is crushed by the tax in the first place ?  
 
And what about the rest of the world, while we cripple ourselves with this cockamamie mumbo jumbo the largest producers of carbon just continue on pumping it out while increasing their GDP.

..the green party wants to hurt the people they represent. Not for me for sure.

I do have an issue with hearing correctly.  
So 50 dollar a tonne? Plus 10 more every year after.  
That's crazy! People are having a hard enough time paying their bills and trying to survive as it is now.  
I can't afford an electric car, most people can't!  
People who live in older homes and are of a certain age are certainly not going to invest and install solar panels for heating their homes.  
I hear that MNP conducted a survey about how much cash people had at the end of the month and 56% of people had only 200 dollars to spend however they want. To me that's extremely sad.  
Why is it that only the provincial Conservatives are the only party wanting to give us a financial break? We need more money in our pocket not less.  
The Federal Conservatives are also touting giving Canadians a break if they are elected.  
I don't understand why the other parties, provincial and federal just want to spend and raise taxes, do they want to break us and take all our money?  
Welcome to homelessness.

Kind of off topic, but honestly, I think that in a country like ours where we all need our own transportation because we are spread out so far from everything, and with a climate such as ours where we need to consume fuel to heat our homes at least 8 months a year, the implementation of an ever increasing carbon tax is not really what is best for the constituents. It may, where possible, change some consumers habits in using energy, but when you look at what the rest of the world is doing to reduce their carbon footprint our efforts are kind of like trying to drain the ocean with an eyedropper.  
 
Maybe the notion of reducing carbon pollution this way would work if all the players were doing the same, but bankrupting the Canadian taxpayer when most of the rest of the world won't do their part seems pointless. I can't / won't support a political party, Provincial or Federal that is looking to a carbon tax to fix climate change.