Deputy leader hopes for Green wave in Quebec this fall following third-place finish in Outremont byelection
Green, who finished third in Outremont behind the Liberal and NDP candidates, believes it's possible Quebecers could once again choose to shift their vote en masse to a new party, as they've done previously, and send as many as five or six green party MPs to Ottawa.
He believes the numbers show Quebecers are starting to see the party as a "useful" group with concrete solutions to problems such as climate change."These are mature people, who have already seen snow, some have already done municipal politics, some have done federal politics, have been candidates for other parties," he said.
Actor and comedian JiCi Lauzon, who is well-known in Quebec, ran for the party in 2015 in a riding south of Montreal, but only managed to win 8.5 per cent of the votes. He says that if the Green party manages to recruit a star, their best hope may be in two Montreal ridings, Laurier--Sainte-Marie and Hochelaga, which are both represented by NDP MPs who have announced they won't be running in the fall.
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