Please Please Please: Pedneault’s Last-Minute Plea for “Unity” Gets Ghosted

With just hours to go before the writ drops, Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault has done it again—posted another cringe worthy video appeal that’s as earnest as it is confusing.

Cue collective blinking from political insiders and voters alike.

At this point, one wonders: do Pedneault and co-leader Elizabeth May understand that elections are not team-building retreats? That voters, not party leaders, are the ones who get to decide representation? Do they really think Jagmeet Singh, Yves-François Blanchet, and a freshly coronated Mark Carney are going to drop everything to sing Kumbaya over herbal tea in the West Block cafeteria?

If so, what exactly is on the agenda for this fantasy summit? Are we talking electoral reform? Riding swaps? A joint Spotify playlist? Because based on the video, no one knows. Least of all Pedneault.

This latest “please, please, please” plea reads less like strategy and more like a cry for help from a campaign that’s run out of ideas. Or worse—one that never had them to begin with. Why pitch an undefined meeting the day before the election is called—after all the other parties have already ghosted you?

Even more bewildering: Pedneault’s insistence that Canada must remain united—apparently not by leadership or policy, but by pre-election group chats and vague vibes. Is this his vision of democracy? No debate, no disagreement—just cancel the election and agree to massive military budgets, Arctic icebreakers, and polite silence on Gaza?

It’s hard to square Pedneault’s yearning for togetherness with his record of promoting military buildup, aligning with Liberal war hawks, and avoiding even a whiff of criticism toward his former party friends who helped fund a genocide. Do these people, including the Liberals he used to campaign for not deserve criticism?

This moment less than 24 hours before the election call was the moment for the Greens to put forward bold ideas, to challenge the status quo, and to explain their platform. Instead, Pedneault is begging for company at a table no one else even acknowledges.

May’s Pre-Election Messaging Just As Cringe-Worthy

Adding to the confusion, Elizabeth May recently published a nostalgic video urging people to vote—but not necessarily for the Green Party. In the clip, she recalls her 2011 election win and speaks vaguely about the importance of voting for “a progressive MP,” suggesting that strategic voting might be preferable in some ridings. This ambiguous message, released just before the election call, raises eyebrows: is May subtly telling voters to abandon Green candidates in favour of Liberals or New Democrats? The timing and tone only add to the growing perception that the Green leadership lacks clarity heading into the campaign.