What People are Saying about the Election

Anna Di Carlo: “A Harper Government has absolutely no intention of sharing power with anyone. The age of reasonable accommodations is over. Today, the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands is accompanied by the concentration of political power in fewer and fewer hands. This is why Parliament doesn't "work." It is paralyzed because the party in power refuses to "reasonably accommodate" any interests save the dominant monopoly interests.”

National Leader MLPC, Etobicoke North

Elizabeth May: “This is definitely going to be a much more aggressive and unrestrained government.”

Green Party leader and newly elected first Green party MP in Canada

Bronwen Bruch: “The Conservative party increased their vote percentage by less than two points, but this allowed them to win 24 more seats than in 2008, when they were already over-represented. Stephen Harper calls this a ‘decisive endorsement’, but we call it a rip-off.”

President of Fair Vote Canada (FVC)

Esther Matharu: “It is time for us to stop fighting ‘against’ the current government and concentrate on defining a new, united and progressive Canada, a Canada that works ‘for’ the people. A new paradigm is needed. Citizens can act as a force outside the government to change it. The people can and must speak.”

Current leader of the Women’s Alliance Party