Elizabeth May (1) (1954–)
Autore di How to Save the World in Your Spare Time
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Sull'Autore
Elizabeth May is the leader of the Green Party of Canada and the member of parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands. She is an officer of the Order of Canada for her decades of environmental work. She lives in Sidney-by-the-Sea on Vancouver Island. Who We are is her eighth book.
Fonte dell'immagine: Grant Neufeld (Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2006)
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- May, Elizabeth Evans
- Data di nascita
- 1954-06-09
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Istruzione
- Dalhousie University
- Attività lavorative
- Leader of the Green Party of Canada
lawyer
environmentalist - Organizzazioni
- Green Party of Canada
Sierra Club - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of Canada
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 140
- Popolarità
- #146,473
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 79
- Lingue
- 4
“Decisions are made on the basis of public opinion research far more than on the basis of policy analysis by the civil service” (p75). Yeah, when did THAT start to happen?
“If a citizen truly needs the intermediation of a lobby to get the attention of policy-makers in Ottawa … then we have no real democracy” (p173).
And then there’s the FPTP (First Past the Post) system Canada uses. In the 2008 election, “The Bloc won 50 seats with 1.3 million votes, while the NDP won 37 seats with 2.4 million votes. The Green Party won just under 1 million votes … yet won no seats” (p199). ‘Nuff said.… (altro)