Elizabeth May, excluded from Munk debate, plans to tweet foreign policy positions
Posted September 28, 2015 11:05 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Green Leader Elizabeth May won’t be onstage for tonight’s leaders’ debate, but she plans to actively tweet her foreign policy positions.
May is turning to Twitter to provide a perspective she says no other leader can — a woman’s point of view on international relations.
Only the Conservative, Liberal and NDP leaders have been invited to the Toronto exchange on foreign affairs sponsored by the Munk Debates, a charitable organization.
May says a federal leaders’ debate needs a woman’s perspective on the global refugee crisis, the plight of mothers in developing nations and the general oppression of women.
She has taken part in two leaders’ debates during the election campaign, but she used Twitter to insert herself into one on the economy when she was excluded by the host, the Globe and Mail.
Earlier this month, the Greens filed a complaint with the Canada Revenue Agency alleging the Munk format violates the agency’s policies limiting the political activities of charities.
