NDP: "Keep May out of Debates"

Good old Liberal mouthpiece Jason Cherniak thinks that the NDP is being dumb for saying that Elizabeth May shouldn't be allowed to join the Leaders debates. I disagree, more so now than ever before.

I think it's quite simple Jason... why should the Liberal Party of Canada be allowed to have TWO representitves at the Leaders Debate? That's the point that these NDPer's are pointing out, and I think it's going to work quite well...

"I don't think we need her in the debate," said Charlie Angus, the [NDP] party's MP for Timmins-James Bay. "Dion is obviously her leader. I don't think there really is a place for Elizabeth May. She's not giving us a clear enough alternative."

Mr. Angus was joined in his criticism by former [NDP] party leader Alexa McDonough.

"It's pretty hard to distinguish now between the Grits and the Greens," Ms. McDonough said. "So I guess she can have her leader, Stéphane Dion, speak for her in the debates. It seems an odd way to shrink down her party stature, but that's what she's done."

Without the Dion/May deal, the Greens had a real shot at being allowed to join the Leaders Debates... no one could have really raised a solid argument against it. Now, there is a real and legitimate reason to keep her out... she's now a semi-official Liberal mouthpiece. Why on earth would any other party want her to be permitted?

I agree with the Dippers... I think she shot herself, and the members of her Party, in the foot on this one.