Dave Bagler

Last night the Green Party of Ontario took some important strides in the ridings of Leeds-Grenville (LG) and Ottawa West-Nepean (OWN).

In 2007 we were 3rd in LG with 7.18% of the vote.  We led the NDP by only 86 votes (we had 2,907, they had 2,821) with 40,462 or 54.9% of voters participating.  Last night we extended our 86 vote lead on the NDP to 700!  With a voter turn out that dropped down to 36.9% every party last votes.  However we lost the least number of votes or second least proportionally depending on how you want to look at it.

So there's a new HD poll out.  My first impression is that I like the new green look but now on to more substantial observations.

So this survey was conducted over 2 weeks with a sample size of 1,000 per week.  Nationally HD has us at 9% (not bad) with the Libs and Cons tied at 32% (hopefully keeping us from a spring election).

Regionally we are sitting at:

Mike Schreiner became the leader of the Green Party of Ontario last weekend in London.  There was a lot of media coverage this morning marking a beginning of a new and exciting chapter for the GPO.

Mike was in Ottawa last week for the Ottawa Centre AGM and to speak with Eastern Ontario Green Party members.

I got some time to speak with him and was really impressed by his vision of the GPO as we begin (and in some cases continue) preparations for 2011.