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Blue and White Army
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Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Posts: 110
Location: West Sussex, UK

Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 3:18 pm

 

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I don't think you can accurately call too many Green parties in Canada "hippie" anymore.

Many of them still have one-issue, environmentalist executive members, but these people are mostly of the old guard and are on the way out.

Most of the Greens in Canada are now modelling themselves on the Greens of Germany and New Zealand, which are by no means hippie. At all.

I'm fairly "left wing", but feel that labour politics are a thing of the past. There's much more to the left than labour issues, something the NDP needs to come to grips with.

I actually like how Jack Layton operates and thinks, but to be honest, he's closer in policy and principal to a Green viewpoint, rather than the NDP's.

It's a funny old game, politics.

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