Camille Labchuk has written up an excellent post on Renee Hetherington who is running against Green Party leader Elizabeth May in Saanich–Gulf Islands:

The hotly-contested race in Saanich–Gulf Islands turned toxic this week, with newly-nominated Liberal candidate Renee Hetherington failing her first character test as a candidate — the civility test. Hetherington issued a news release on Saturday for the express purpose of trashing Green Party leader and fellow SGI candidate Elizabeth May. Hetherington referred to May as a “sad little sprout” in the title of the release, with the remainder devoted to bad Liberal spin on why Hetherington is so much awesomer than May and only Hetherington can save the day.

Read more on Camille’s website: http://www.camillelabchuk.ca/2009/10/01/renee-hetherington-flunks-the-civility-test/