OTTAWA—Burdened with high staff costs and legal fees from bitter infighting, the federal Green party is approaching a financial “tipping point” where it won’t be able to run an election campaign with “any effectiveness,” according to the party’s executive director. The harrowing picture of a party in financial free fall was delivered Tuesday night to members of the Greens’ top governing body, the federal council. Interim executive director Dana Taylor and Douglas Tingey, the president of the Green Party of Canada Fund, spelled out how the organization’s expenses are dangerously outpacing the money it makes through political donations. “There’s a tipping point of which there’s any effectiveness at all to conduct any type of a campaign, and I would suggest we’re very close to that tipping point,” Taylor added later in the meeting. Jean-Luc Cooke, a former Green party president who resigned last year, expressed shock on Twitter, stating that the members of the Green party fund “are now personally exposed” as they take Paul to court.

Source: thestar July 28, 2021 18:34 UTC