Green Party leader Elizabeth May speaks to reporters before a rally in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday April 11, 2011.DARRYL DYCK
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What gets moved
Re Party Leaders Agree: Don't Mess With The Playoffs (April 11): As members of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, we find it very disturbing that while the media consortium is able to move the date of the French leaders' debate because of a hockey game, it has so far refused to respond to the calls of women and men across the country to include Green Party Leader Elizabeth May in its debates this week.
Ms. May has been named as one of the most influential women in the world by Newsweek magazine. She is the only female party leader in Canada, and speaks for nearly one million Canadian voters coast to coast. She is a clear and intelligent voice on issues of sustainability that concern us all. She expresses the concerns shared by many Canadians that our tax dollars should be spent on an agenda of building peace and funding human and environmental needs, here in our own country and internationally.
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace joins with the YWCA, Equal Voice and thousands of other Canadians in calling for the consortium to include Elizabeth May in the leaders' debates.
Lyn Adamson, co-chair, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, Toronto and Jan Slakov, Salt Spring Island, B.C.