NHL Georges Laraque adds ethnicity “muscle” to Green Party of Canada team?!

NHL Georges Laraque adds ethnicity “muscle” to Green Party of Canada team?!

NHL Georges Laraque adds ethnicity to Green Party of Canada team?! In the global game of environment, the Green Party plays the role of environmental conscience in Canadian politics. Well, the Party just added to its game team, a new Deputy Leader: famed former NHL enforcer Georges Laraque.

But shall this appointment to the Green team, help Green Party Leader Elizabeth May build public, ethnic and media awareness with Canadiens?! --sorry, a little fun, with the fact, that Laraque finished his NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens.
The Green Party claims it is often ignored by the mainstream media. Can the retired NHL enforcer help get the media coverage that environmental and Party activists say that they are not getting?

The world is in greatly troubled times! Nuclear waste from the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant –North America’s largest plant-- is about to move across the Great Lakes in September 2010. Iran is about to accelerate its nuclear program. The world’s worst oil spill, the BP Gulf spill, is finally capped; but its huge ecological damage is now only being speculated.

Climate change has dominated media weather stories around the world this summer of 2010, with record hot and cold weather crises globally.

On the human rights front, in Canada, a $45 Million class action suit is launched against the abuse of power by the Canadian governments in their treatment of protesters at the Toronto 2010 G20 meeting.

With Mr Georges Laraque’s fame and personal veganism, can he really help bring public and media awareness to such important global lifestyle and environmental issues?

With Mr Georges Laraque’s parents born in Haiti, can the NHL enforcer star bring ethnic outreach and credibility “muscle” to the Green Party?

The Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May, and the Party is holding its national convention in Toronto this August 2010. It shall be insightful to see what role the new Deputy Leader plays in the Convention and the Green Party’s outreach in Toronto, one of Canada’s most multicultural cities.

By the way, some followers of NoNuclearNow were asking why we are giving space to covering the Green Party of Canada and its activities –thank you, by the way, for your comments!

Well, as NoNuclearNow is a blog about nuclear energy, we think that public and media awareness and education is key to learning and disseminating the truth about nuclear energy. We believe nuclear power is NOT just a theoretical issue; but something that we must study, understand and defend –or oppose! So NoNuclearNow feels it appropriate and necessary that we provide information and insights into the political leaders and parties that create, influence and enact our public policies and laws; such as Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and the Green Party of Canada.

We noted earlier this month, that the transportation of nuclear waste in the Great Lakes could be a symbolic moment that the green politicians and activists can seize upon, to raise public and media awareness.

A leak of nuclear waste from Bruce Nuclear Energy Generating Plant would make the BP Gulf oil spill a footnote; contaminating 20% of the world’s surface fresh water. Bruce is the second largest plant in the world. This is symbolism galore for alert politicians, and activists.

Perhaps, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and the party can equally seize upon the opportunity that they have created, with the symbolism in a retired NHL enforcer with Haitian heritage, Montreal birth place and green vegan lifestyle?!