VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A member of Canada's Parliament joined the Green Party on Saturday in a move that could boost the fledgling party's bid to participate in televised debates in the expected fall election.
Blair Wilson, a Vancouver-area legislator now sitting as an independent after he left the Liberal Party amid a finance investigation, will be the first Green to hold a federal legislative office in Canada or United States.
"Today we make history," said Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whose minority Conservative government was elected in January 2006, seems almost certain to call a general election next week, and one of his advisers has pointed to October 14 as a likely election date.
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