Month: September 2018

• 2018

  Decade of Decline, Part 1.2: The Declining Number of Active EDAs

  Since 2007, the Green Party of Canada has experienced an ongoing decline in the number of active EDAs (riding associations), and an erosion of the party’s core of long-established EDAs.…
• 2018

  A week before the GPC convention, a poll puts them at 10%. What’s the real story?

  An article published September 21st on ipolitics.ca carried the headline More Canadians than ever support Green Party. Reporting on an EKOS poll, the article quoted pollster Frank Graves as saying the…
• 2018

  “Emperor Max” is No Solution

  In a National Post column published August 31, Maxime Bernier lays out his reasons for leaving the Conservatives and forming his own federal party. Urging Canadians to learn about public choice theory,…
• 2018

  Decade of Decline, Part 1.1: The Collapse of Local Contributions

  Since 2007, the Green Party of Canada has experienced a severe decrease in contributions to its EDAs (riding associations), with the losses now totaling more than 80% of both dollars and…
• 2018

  Decade of Decline: The Collapse of Green Party Grassroots Support, 2008-2017

  Decade of Decline is my report on the deep and long-running decline in local support for the Green Party of Canada. The decline began in 2008 (with some early warning signs…