By Pepper Parr
April 22th, 2019
BURLINGTON, ON
If there is an election and there is a Green candidate in the race, Burlington environmentalist Vince Fiorito is likely to be involved. He is currently in Prince Edward Island working with a Green Party candidate that he thinks might be able to knock off the Premier of the province.
According to McLeans magazine, Sarah Donald’s district is “leaning” Green. Sarah was a last minute Green party nomination.
She decided to run when the writ came down three weeks ago. No one else contested the candidacy and she was acclaimed.
Fiorito showed up a few days later to help her. “She couldn’t quit her contract job at the university to campaign full time which put a bit of a crimp in her campaign.”
One of her campaign posters was defaced by a drunk woman, who was gracious enough to drop her wallet at the scene and aid the police investigation.
Fiorito thinks this “may be a “Mouse That Roared”; a Green taking down a sitting Premier, Liberal Wade MacLauchlan. When was the last time that happened in Canada? McKenzie King – we think – please correct us if we are wrong.
PEI has a 27 member legislature with the Greens running candidates in every district. A Green candidate died, along with his son, in a canoeing accident days before the Tuesday election – that seat will have a by-election sometime in the future.
Three of the four most recent polls had the Greens forming a government.
Fiorito wanted Burlington to know that history is being made in PEI.