Elizabeth May and The Green Party in Guelph today

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One party leader that has to fight to be heard in this election, As the leader of Canada’s Green Party, Elizabeth May. She’s been rejected from televised debates, escorted from the national press gallery dinner, and has campaigned in virtually empty rooms.

But none of that seems to deter the almost perpetually positive party leader. One segment of the population that the Greens count on to boost their fortunes, is young voters. Today, Scot Urquhart was on hand in Guelph, as May made a push, into vote-rich Southern Ontario:

Elizabeth May was in Guelph, to campaign with former Ontario Environment Minister Gord Miller, hoping to extend the reach of her tiny Green party, into Southern Ontario. The big announcement of the day for May, was a pledge to limit student loan debt to a maximum of 10-thousand dollars, and eliminate tuitions completely, by 2020. “Going to university these days with rising tuitions, and interest bearing student loans, and a really poor job market of insecure and precarious employment for our young people, is a real challenge for our whole society.”

May knows this first hand. Her 24 year old daughter Cate, is in graduate school.

You might think a plan to cut tuition and limit debt, would be a pretty popular idea around the Guelph University campus. But it seems that the students at Guelph have other issues on their minds.

“What issue would be important to you?” one student was asked. “…probably economic growth”.

“I care about the environment and social issues” said another. “I’m just worried about what jobs are going to be available when we’re done school.”

Surprisingly, there seemed to be a lot of skepticism over May’s tuition plan. “That’s good to hear. I mean, I don’t know if I believe it a hundred percent, but it’s good to hear.”

“Well I’d like to see how they do it and what other areas are affected then…to fund free education. ”

So if May wants to keep her campaign rolling smoothly with young voters, it may take more than a promise to cut tuition, to put the Green party in the picture on election day.

The Green Party has a full budget breakdown available on their website.