OTTAWA—Green Leader Annamie Paul is facing obstacles inside her party that threaten her success as Canada’s first Black political leader, according to several Green insiders and a top member of her political circle.
Over her first six months as leader, Paul has endured “significant resistance” from high-ranking officials on the Green party’s most powerful governing body, said Sean Yo, a party operative who worked on Paul’s leadership bid and managed her byelection campaign in Toronto Centre last October.
Yo said this includes distracting her byelection campaign by asking it to refund $50,000 to party headquarters in the middle of the contest, and forcing her to work without getting paid for about three months before the party finally gave her an employment contract.
