There was great news today for both of the Green Party of Ontario by-election campaigns in the form of a strong endorsement from Randall Denley in the Ottawa Citizen.

From our candidates to, our leader, to our party's policies Mr. Denley is very impressed.

On our competition:

"There are the Liberals, with their scandals and broken promises; the PCs, still trying to figure out who they are; and the NDP, for those who think we don't have enough socialism and big government."

On our platform:

"...the Greens have policies that are much more in sync with real life than those of their competitors."

On Mike's involvement in the by-elections:

"The Greens' new leader, Mike Schreiner, has released a platform aimed at Eastern Ontario.  Imagine some political party thinking of us... It's an attractive blend of populism and environmentalism."

On our candidates:

"In Ottawa West-Nepean, the Green candidate is Mark MacKenzie. He's the sort of grey-haired, well-dressed business guy the PCs would have loved to get as a candidate."

"Neil Kudrinko is the Green candidate in Leeds-Grenville. A former Eastern Ontario president of the federal Liberal party, Kudrinko switched to the Greens because the other parties don't have a good grasp of what rural ridings like his really need."

And finally...

"Maybe it’s time to send a message [to the PCs and Liberals] by voting Green."

Note to the by-election campaigns, go make a few thousand copies of this article and get it in to every mail box you can.  In two by-elections where the general public believes the results are far gone conclusions this kind of third party endorsement could make waves.