Green Party announces Shadow Cabinet

The Green Party of Canada today announced its new Shadow Cabinet, comprising of 34 posts.

Think you know the Green Party? Take another look. The new cabinet includes Mark Taylor - an Albertan engineer in the oil and gas sector - as portfolio holder for Energy Policy.

The full list of Shadow Cabinet positions is available here.

As with most Green Party procedures, policies are created in a "bottom-up" or "grassroots" method. In plain English, that means that policies are open to debate and majority consensus, rather than dictated by a select group of party strategists.

If you would like to play a role in such Green policy formation, consider joining an issue caucus! Each shadow minister will be compiling a group of volunteers to help conduct research policy ideas, communicate with Green Party members and create dialogue with the general public. If you would like to get involved, please contact the relevant shadow minister directly (contact info should be available here in the near future, or drop me an email and I can help sort you out).

(Photo courtesy of Grant Neufeld.)