Not one to be silenced, May provided running commentary in a series of videos produced and broadcast via Twitter from a church in Victoria, B.C.
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May said Thursday she expects to reach thousands of Canadians through Twitter.
“I think (the Globe and Mail debate) is a way for providing some cover for Stephen Harper for refusing to attend the real debate”, said May.
The party is teaming up with the social media company to swiftly film and Tweet May’s video responses to statements by the three invited leaders.
After being excluded from the Globe and Mail’s event, the Green party leader decided she’d participate anyway, using Twitter to post videos in rebuttal and raise other issues over the course of the evening. “Harper, with all due respect, that isn’t true, ‘” she acknowledged.
The leaders will debate, you guessed it, the Canadian economy.
The brush-off prompted Twitter Canada’s Steve Ladurantaye to suggest a parallel digital debate, something he helped the Scottish National Party do in Britain earlier this year.
The Globe and Mail’s editor-in-chief, David Walmsley will moderate the debate.
According to statistics compiled by public-relations firm North Strategic, May was mentioned in 1,799 tweets in a 24-hour period leading up to the Calgary debate.
On Wednesday, Calgary’s mayor met with Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Tom Mulcair.
In an interview this week, the Green leader said she hoped to provide “something of a reality check” during the debate.
Without a moderator of her own, May was free to volunteer as much – or as little – information as she chose about the Green Party’s own fiscal plan. Even using social media as cleverly as we possibly can, nothing replaces being on the stage to say, ‘But wait, Mr. Harper…’
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But she plans to increase taxes all the way up to 19 per cent, while Mulcair has said he’ll cap them at 17.5 per cent.
