Adriane Carr in 2005.

Adriane Carr (1952-) is a Canadian academic, activist and politician with the Green Party in British Columbia and Canada. She was a founding member and the Green Party of British Columbia's first leader from 1983 to 1985, whereafter the party abolished the leadership position until 1993. In 2000, she became the party's leader again, and she is generally credited with helping to bring the party major party status. In the 2005 provincial election, she received in excess of 25% of the vote in her home riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast. She resigned her position in September of 2006 to become one of two deputy leaders of the Green Party of Canada now led by her political ally and long time friend Elizabeth May. Although she is now intending to run federally for (Vancouver Centre) she continues to work and support the Green Party of British Columbia. Image File history File links Adriane Carr, leader of the Green Party of British Columbia, seen here on May 17, 2005, at the election day party in Gibsons, British Columbia. ... Image File history File links Adriane Carr, leader of the Green Party of British Columbia, seen here on May 17, 2005, at the election day party in Gibsons, British Columbia. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. ... The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. ... Popular vote map by riding. ... Powell River-Sunshine Coast is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. ... The Green Party of Canada is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1983. ... Elizabeth May at the June 21, 2006, leadership debate of the Green Party of Canada. ... Vancouver Centre is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1917. ... The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. ...

Carr was born in Vancouver and raised in the Lower Mainland and Kootenays. She earned a Master's degree in geography from UBC, and went on to a career as a geography instructor at Vancouver Community College. This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... The Lower Mainland is the name that residents of British Columbia apply to the region surrounding the City of Vancouver. ... The Kootenay Region (in common parlance The Kootenays) comprises the southeastern portion of British Columbia. ... The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university with its main campus located at Point Grey, in the University Endowment Lands adjacent to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and another smaller campus known as UBC Okanagan located in Kelowna, British Columbia. ... Vancouver Community College, formerly Vancouver City College, was established in 1965 by bringing together the Vancouver Vocational Institute (1949), the Vancouver School of Art (1925), the Vancouver School Boards Night School Program (1909) and the King Edward Senior Matriculation and Continuing Education Centre (1962). ...

Environmentalism

Carr helped to found the Green Party of British Columbia and worked as its leader from 1983 to 1985. She began working professionally for the Western Canada Wilderness Committee in 1987, having co-founded the group in 1980 with her husband. In this capacity, she became a fixture of BC's environmental movement, building the small group into BC's largest environmental organization by 1990. From 1992 until 2000, WCWC was led by a four-person committee of paid employees comprising Carr, her husband, activist Joe Foy and the organization's chief financial officer. The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. ... The Western Canada Wilderness Committee (WCWC) is a non-profit environmental organization that aims to protect Canadas wild spaces. ... Joseph Anthony Joe Foy (February 21, 1943 – October 12, 1989) was a Major League Baseball player who primarily played third base, but also played outfield (20 games), shortstop (19 games), first base (16 games), and second base (6 games). ...

Although consistently opposing civil disobedience as an organization, Carr's team was viewed as one of the most principled and least prone to compromise of the province's blue chip environmental organizations. Carr and George were strong in their condemnation of the BC Commission on Resources and Environment, set up by the Harcourt NDP government to seek a negotiated settlement amongst "stakeholders" in highly contentious areas of the province. WCWC led the forces urging an environmentalist boycott of the process, which gained in public credibility as the process moved forward and government manipulation of it became increasingly exposed.

But in the late 1990s, Carr altered the public image of WCWC by brokering, a landmark agreement amongst first nations groups, environmentalists and the MacMillan Bloedel corporation to resolve an extended conflict over logging in Clayoquot Sound. MacMillan Bloedel Limited, sometimes referred to as MacBlo, was a huge forestry company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... Clayoquot Sound (usually pronounced clay-kwot or clack-kwot) is located on Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. ...

Politics

Carr has been the BC Green Party leader on two separate occasions. She was recognized as the party's leader in the 1983 provincial election, held shortly after the party's founding. Carr ran in the riding of Vancouver-Point Grey, and finished last in a field of eight candidates with 1549 votes. She also ran as a Green candidate for the Vancouver School Board in 1984, but after this had little further involvement with the provincial Green Party until the late 1990s. Although she and her husband Paul George returned briefly to active involvement in the late 80s to block a plan by the party's Ecofeminist Caucus to radically restructure the organization. The British Columbia general election of 1983 was the 33rd provincial election for the province of British Columbia, Canada. ... In the British Isles since Anglo-Saxon times, a riding is traditionally a sub-division (especially in three) of a county, in Australia analogous. ... Vancouver-Point Grey is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. ... Vancouver School Board (School District #39) is a school district based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Paul George in 2005. ...

The Green Party of British Columbia was led from 1993 to 2000 by Stuart Parker (whom Carr endorsed during both of his runs for the party leadership in 1993 and 1997) and its ideological direction was largely guided by former members of the New Democratic Party during this period. Carr emerged as a rival to Parker at the party's 1999 policy convention. The non-confidence motion against him that she sponsored at the party's annual convention six months later was defeated by a substantial margin. But he was defeated in another non-confidence motion in March 2000, thanks largely to the organizing abilities of Carr and her allies to recruit new party members supportive of her leadership bid. This recruitment ultimately paid off when, on September 23, 2000, Carr defeated Andy Shadrack and former municipal councilor Wally du Temple to become party leader for a second time. Stuart Parker Stuart Parker was leader of the Green Party in British Columbia, Canada, from 1993 to 2000. ... The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a democratic socialist political party in British Columbia, Canada. ...

After winning the leadership, Carr kept the promises to many of the environmentalists she had recruited for her leadership bid and focused the party more specifically on environmental matters while downplaying the social policy issues that had come to dominate the public statements of the party in Parker's last years. This half-year period before the 2001 general election also saw the party shift to the right, allowing the Greens to enter the election with a strong centrist appeal. (Parker and his supporters had resigned from the party July 31, 2000, accusing the WCWC of attempting to manipulate the party's direction. He later encouraged Green Party supporters to vote NDP in the 2001 provincial election.) British Columbia riding map showing the winning parties and their vote percentage of each riding. ...

Carr ran in the 2001 election in the riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast, against former Liberal leader and current NDP cabinet minister Gordon Wilson. She was included in the party leaders' debate along with Liberal leader Gordon Campbell and Premier Ujjal Dosanjh. As the NDP was greatly declining in popularity due to a series of the scandals and lacklustre campaign, the Greens were increasingly viewed as a progressive alternative for voters. Many believed Carr in turn had a chance to win the seat, and become the first Green Party candidate to sit in a Canadian legislature; instead, she finished third with 6316 votes (27%), against 6349 for Wilson (28%) and 9904 for victorious Liberal Harold Long. The Green Party received 12.4% of the provincial vote in this election, a significant increase from its 2% total in the 1996 election. But Carr's courting of a centrist vote paid off with some of the party's strongest results appearing not in NDP seats but in safe Liberal located in wealthy suburbs like West Vancouver and Delta. The party's largest number of votes was received in Saanich-Gulf Islands, one of only 17 constituencies that had been voting Liberal since 1991. Powell River-Sunshine Coast is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. ... The British Columbia Liberal Party (usually referred to as the BC Liberals) is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. ... Alternate meanings in cabinet (disambiguation) A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ... Gordon Wilson is a Canadian politician from British Columbia. ... Debate (North American English) or debating (British English) is a formal method of interactive and position representational argument. ... Gordon Muir Campbell, BA, MBA, MLA, (born January 12, 1948) is the 34th Premier of British Columbia. ... Hon. ... Current MLA for Powell River Sunshine Coast. ... The British Columbia general election of 1996 was the 36th provincial election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. ...

Seeking to maintain that breadth of support across the political spectrum, Carr has built alliances on both sides of BC's right-left divide, reportedly earning the respect of both the BC Nurses' Union and former Social Credit cabinet minister Rafe Mair for her work championing electoral reform since the 2001 election. Rafe Mair is a former Canadian politician and a current radio personality in British Columbia, Canada. ...

In 2004, Carr ran for the Greens in a by-election in Surrey-Panorama Ridge, held following the resignation of Liberal Gulzar Singh Cheema. She finished a distant third with 8.4% of the vote as the NDP recovered to win the riding. This result was a harbinger of the party's decline in popularity in the 2005 general election, where its share of the vote fell to 9%. A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has died or resigned. ... Surrey-Panorama Ridge is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. ... Gulzar Singh Cheema (born April 13, 1954) is a Canadian politician. ...

Carr was a vocal supporter of closed party list proportional representation, which would give party leaders unilateral control over who comprised their caucus. In 2002, she organized the Free Your Vote campaign which brought together a broad coalition of British Columbians and even included the official support of trade unions such as the BC Nurses' in a petition drive under the province's citizen initiative legislation ro institute this system. Despite having condemned this legislation as unworkable after failing to submit sufficient signatures for an anti-grizzly bear hunting initiative by WCWC, Carr threw the energies into this campaign which, although it failed to gather sufficient signatures in all but four ridings, created the largest voting reform organization in the province and increased awareness and support amongst Greens and non-Greens alike. Party lists are used in elections to legislatures which use Party-list proportional representation or additional member proportional representation to designate a partys nominees in the at-large portion of the vote. ... Proportional representation (sometimes referred to as full representation, or PR), is an electoral system delivering a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (grouped by a certain measure) obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive (usually in legislative assemblies). ...

She felt so strongly about this that she effectively stood for the "No" side in the BC electoral reform referendum, 2005: "STV is even more adversarial than the system we have now. It's not truly proportional. It entrenches big vested parties. It's rock bottom in terms of getting women elected. And it still leaves too many voters frustrated by their votes not counting." - [1]. This was a very major frustration for the majority of GPBC supporters who sought any electoral reform whatsoever. Since the election, however, Carr has substantially moderated her views and now plans to support the next government-sponsored referendum on the STV model of proportional representation in the fall of 2008. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Electoral reform projects seek to change the way that public desires are reflected in elections through electoral systems. ...

However, opposition to STV may have done Carr lasting damage within her party, given how close the referendum came to passing in 2005. Over the objections of her inner circle, the party's post-election convention reinstituted a number of Parker-era checks and balances on the leader. Instead of the indefinite term with no scheduled reviews that Carr has enjoyed since 2000, her term now expires in 2007, after which she must run again for the position.

In 2005, she was also included in the leaders debate, this time with Gordon Campbell and Carole James of the NDP. She was expected to be strong competition in her riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast, but finished third again with 25% of the vote (a decline of 2%), 14% behind the victorious NDP candidate. Carole James Carole Alison James, MLA, (born December 22, 1957, in Dukinfield, England) is a Canadian politician and former public administrator. ...

Adriane Carr resigned her position in September of 2006 to become one of two deputy leaders of the Green Party of Canada now led by her political ally and long time friend Elizabeth May. In January 2007, Carr announced her intention to run in the federal riding of Vancouver Centre, running against Liberal Party of Canada incumbent Hedy Fry. Carr defended her parachute candidacy by moving into the Dominion Building within the riding (Feb '07). She continues to work and support the Green Party of British Columbia. The Green Party of Canada is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1983. ... Elizabeth May at the June 21, 2006, leadership debate of the Green Party of Canada. ... Vancouver Centre is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1917. ... The Liberal Party of Canada (French: ), colloquially known as the Grits (originally Clear Grits), is a Canadian federal political party positioned at the centre of the political spectrum, combining a progressive social policy with moderate economics. ... Hedy Fry, PC, MP, MD (born August 6, 1941) is a Canadian politician, physician, and best Queen Canada has ever had - although some poindexter at McGill may think otherwise. ... The Dominion Building in 1915. ... The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. ...

Election Results

Election Results

1. Vancouver-Point Grey was a double-member riding; although she received only 1.8% of the total votes cast, approximately 3.6% of local electors voted for Carr.

2. Vancouver's School Board is elected by a city-wide (at-large) vote through which a total of nine positions are filled.

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External links

• http://www.adrianecarr.ca/