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Green Party Of ManitobaThe Green Party of Manitoba is a provincial political party in Manitoba, Canada, founded on November 11, 1998. Although legally autonomous from the Green Party of Canada, it is affiliated with the Green Party of Canada in Manitoba, a federal organization established in 1996. The GPM was the most successful of Manitoba's "smaller parties" in the provincial election of 2003. An earlier "Green Party" was formed in Winnipeg to contest the municipal elections of 1989. This party was led by Nick Ternette, a former New Democrat who opposed the NDP's centrist policies in the 1980s. Ternette's "Green Party" supported a variety of progressive and environmental policies, and was further to the left than is the current GPM. It never ran candidates at the provincial level. Ternette is not affiliated with the GPM, although he does not actively opposed it. The GPM's policies are generally progressive. The party is primarily focused on environmental issues, and promotes the conservation of land and non-renewable natural resources. It has expressed concern about "urban sprawl" in Winnipeg's suburbs, has called for reform in Manitoba's commercial hog sector, and generally supports the rights of small farming interests over corporations. The GPM also favours liberal positions on social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage, and promotes accessible public health care with emphasis on healthy lifestyles and illness prevention. The party is not primarily focused on labour issues, but supports the extension of labour protection laws to farmworkers, and a reduction of Manitoba's standard work week from 40 to 32 hours. It has also endorsed full employment, and has criticized Gary Doer's NDP governmen for not reversing welfare cutbacks enacted by the previous Tory government of Gary Filmon. It is not clear what position the GPM holds on tax reform. At the federal level and in other provinces, the Green Party favours eliminating progressive income taxation in favour of taxes on personal consumption, a position which is generally regarded as right-wing. The GPM ran six candidates in the provincial election of 1999, and scored its best result in the Winnipeg riding of Wolseley, where Phyllis Abbe received 386 votes. Party leader Markus Buchart ran against Premier Gary Filmon in the riding of Tuxedo, and received 126 votes. The party received 0.2% of all votes cast in the province. The GPM ran fourteen candidates in the 2003 election. Buchart received an impressive 1193 votes (19.2%) in Wolseley, placing second against New Democrat Rob Altemeyer. The GPM as a whole received 4.08% of the vote in the ridings that it contested. The GPM has recently opposed the Doer government's plans to create a new Winnipeg suburb in Waverley West. See also: Canadian political parties
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