The leader of the Green Party's Community Matters Tour stopped in Portage la Prairie on Saturday afternoon.

Elizabeth May was at the Portage Regional Library, and explains the tour's focus.

Elizabeth May discussing issues with Portagers"This tour gives me the chance to get to places that in the intense pressure of the national campaign, I'm unlikely to get back to Portage la Prairie," she says, "So I'm hugely grateful for the chance to listen to people hear now, today, and hear what's on their minds, so it can inform what we put forward as a national platform."

May understands there multiple challenges facing the agriculture sector.

"We really felt the pain for grain farmers, when you can't get your product to market," she says, "We also have the challenges of the climate crisis -- we need to look ahead to how do we adapt agriculture, even if we reduce greenhouse gases as fast as we must. Then, of course, I always hear from people about their concerns for how the carbon tax will affect them, and if it's effective or not."

May notes her party's open to suggestions and comments.