Green, but what else?

In political goings on this week, Adriane Carr has resigned from her post as the leader of the B.C. Green Party after running the show for the past six years. I've always been sort of curious about the Green Party. I'm a big fan of their environmental ideals, but I've never really been clear on where they stand on other issues so I went to their website today to take a look around.

Here's a few things that I came up with after searching on issues that I'm interested in:

- They think that Canada should be taking action to stop the genocide in Darfur (if Canada's primary role in Afghanistan truly is a humanitarian one... why didn't we send troops to Sudan? Isn't what's been going on there more horrific?).
- They have a long-term (ie. longer than the term of an elected official) vision for health care, which emphasizes the value of preventing the "diseases of choice".
- They are advocates of restorative justice and drug law reform.
- The Green Party supports gay marriage.

As far as I'm concerned, those are some huge points in their favour. One thing that I wasn't able to clarify was their stance on abortion. Equality and Respect for Women is part of their Platform 2006, and abortion is mentioned in the intro, but there's no direct reference to abortion in their list of directives. Could anyone out there provide any insight into this one?

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