If the polls are accurate about four per cent of Canadians, possibly more, will vote for the Green Party in this election. (Last time around it was 4.3 per cent, a historic high). Exactly who votes Green and for what reasons is still unclear as no one has done a publicly available survey to answer the question.

But the motivation is not monolithic. There are protest voters, disgruntled NDP voters, Red Tories appalled at Stephen Harper, and Liberals angry at Paul Martin's policies but not willing to go to the NDP.

Clearly, there are tensions running high between some labour and party activists over the strategies in the last election.

This is a huge victory, because the Conservative government has, from day one of the struggle to open a safe site for injecting, vociferously opposed such an idea.