<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (March 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (March 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Green Party of Canada was founded at a conference held at Carleton University in Ottawa in 1983 . Under its first leader, Dr. Trevor Hancock, the party ran 60 candidates in the 1984 Canadian federal election . The BC Greens ran Canada's first Green candidate . Later that year, the founding conference of the Canadian Greens was held at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario . Close to 200 people from 55 communities attended, coming from every province except Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island . </P> <P> The birthing process was difficult, with deep divisions between those arguing for a national structure, and those in favour of a process that would build from the regions following the bioregional democracy structure . </P>

When was the green party of canada founded