OTTAWA—The Green party’s interim president is blaming embattled leader Annamie Paul for the need to launch a court challenge as top officials continue their effort to depose her before they are replaced in party elections next month.
Liana Canton Cusmano — the president of the party’s federal council and one of the officials trying to oust Paul — sent an email to Green members shortly after midnight Friday morning.
In that email, which was obtained by the Star, Cusmano addresses the legal challenge that the party filed in Ontario Superior Court this week. The party wants the court to overrule private arbitration decisions that blocked a planned confidence vote in Paul’s leadership and suspended a review of her party membership.
