Green Party of Nova Scotia Succeeds!

Well, there has been a victory for the GPNS and democracy in Nova Scotia. It's small, but it's a start.

The government had created a election funding law that gave each registered party (there are 4 of them) $1.50/vote, which is perfectly fair because it had no minimum threshold or anything like that. BUT, they had a clause where any registered party that had more than 15% of the vote could take an option to receive $125,000 in a lump sum and $0.90/vote. Now, there is only one party that is less than 15% of the vote, and that's the Greens. It was a blatant attempt to discriminate against a new party.

However, we got the Government to amend the law yesterday, striking down the 15% minimum by claiming it was unconstitutional. We now have access to the second option, giving us a unique opportunity to invest in the party's infrastructure. As well, as Mike Tipping pointed out to me, this also gives us funding to start up door-to-door canvassing, which not only gets our message out, but raises money too.