Dear Editor:
To all the Liberal and NDP supporters who say the Green party should not be contesting seats in this election because the first priority is to get rid of Harper, I say this: If the first priority is to get rid of Harper, then why didn’t those two parties start the campaign by sitting down with each other – and any other non-Conservative parties who wished to participate – and agree not to run against each other in any riding across the country?
This would have ensured the victory of an anti-Harper coalition that could legislate proportional voting for future elections and prevent any party with as little popular support as the Conservatives from forming a majority government ever again.
As it is, I fear we may see a repeat of 2011 wherein the opposition parties split the anti-Conservative vote and allow Harper to hold majority power with less than 40 per cent of the vote.
Greg DePaco, New Westminster
