Elizabeth May home after hospital stay for ‘overwork, fatigue’: husband – National | 24CA News
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May was hospitalized final week, her husband John Kidder mentioned in a put up to her constituency web site on Sunday.
According to Kidder, May spent a couple of days beneath remark at Saanich Peninsula Hospital earlier than being discharged on Saturday.
“Elizabeth was undone last week from sheer overwork, fatigue and stress,” he wrote.
The 69-year-old parliamentarian is at residence now, the place she “will take it easy for at least another week.”
In his letter, he criticized the size of time MPs spend within the House of Commons and mentioned that “summer festivities have been cut down because of the idiotic schedule in the spring.”
He additionally appeared to allude to prolonged work days for May, questioning if it was odd parliamentarians “work double shifts through May and June, sometimes 19-hour days, to sit until midnight almost every day,” together with constituency work.
He added that May had attended 9 commencement ceremonies this 12 months, in addition to the Toronto Pride Parade and the Calgary Stampede.
Kidder additionally praised the work of health-care staff, however criticized the system, saying he and May had been “inducted into the emergency room long-and-fruitless-wait crowd.”
May has been Green Party chief since November of 2022 following the resignation of earlier chief Annamie Paul, who had taken over for May when she initially resigned in 2019.
May campaigned within the 2022 race, nevertheless, on a joint ticket with Jonathan Pedneault — who at the moment serves as her deputy chief.
She has been an MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands since May 2011.
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