THUNDER BAY – A man hoping to replace Elizabeth May at the helm of the Green Party of Canada has planned a Thunder Bay stop on Tuesday.
David Merner, a British Columbia-based equality lawyer and the party’s justice critic, will meet with supporters and the public at a meet-and-greet at the Lakehead Unitarian Fellowship near Bay and Algoma streets from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Merner is a former two-time candidate for federal office on Vancouver Island, finishing second last fall in the riding of Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke to the NDP’s Randall Garrison. Merner copped 26.3 per cent of the vote.
He ran as a Liberal in 2015, winning 106 more votes than he got four years later, but a slightly smaller share of the vote.
According to the Green Party of Canada website, Merner left the Liberals over broken promises on electoral reform, phasing out fossil fuel subsidies and the review of the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
