Adriane Carr

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Adriane Carr (born 1952) is a Canadian politician and environmental activist who was a founding member of the Green Party of British Columbia. She served as the party's leader from 1983 to 1985 and again from 2000 to 2006. At the federal level, she served as deputy leader of the Green Party of Canada from 2006 to 2014. She was also a member of Vancouver City Council from 2011 to 2025. In the 2005 provincial election, Carr received over 25 percent of the vote in her home riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast. In September 2006, she was appointed by federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May, to be one of her two deputy leaders. After two losses as a federal candidate in the Vancouver Centre electoral district (2008 and 2011), Carr was elected to Vancouver City Council in November 2011. She was the sole candidate of the Green Party of Vancouver for one of 10 seats in the at-large election held in the 2011 municipal election. This was her first electoral success in eight attempts, and she was...

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