Accolades have been pouring in over social media for Elizabeth May since announcing she is stepping down as Green Party leader effective immediately. May told a Parliament Hill news conference Monday that her decision after 13 years at the helm is what’s best for the party and her personal life, noting she promised her daughter three years ago that the 2019 election would be her last as party leader. The 65-year-old has appointed deputy leader Jo-Ann Roberts as her successor until a leadership convention next fall. May will still sit as an M-P and lead her three-person caucus in the Commons. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the leaders of the federal Conservatives and N-D-P all tweeted May their best wishes, and Ontario Green Leader Mike Schreiner called her “a friend, mentor and hero.”
