Jilted former Vancouver Kingsway Green party candidate Kevin Potvin may find a new home with the Work Less Party .

WLP cofounder Conrad Schmidt told the Straight that his party, which ran candidates both provincially and municipally in 2005, still has to file federal papers with Elections Canada. But he said he'd "love to have" Potvin, who was ousted as a candidate by federal Green leader Elizabeth May on April 15, amid controversy over a 2002 newspaper column by Potvin on the 9/11 attacks.

"He's a smart man, and he's intelligent" Schmidt said. "You couldn't ask for a better candidate. And we'll run him in Kingsway–where else?"

Potvin told the Straight that Schmidt's invitation is a "nice" gesture, adding he has not yet decided whether or not to run.

"There are so many calculations to make in a decision like that," he said. "A campaign is no easy thing, as evidenced by my short non-run this spring. There isn't even an election called and I was only getting ready to campaign and took quite a beating."

In 2002, Potvin wrote in his Republic of East Vancouver paper that he had a "terrible confession to make".

"When I saw the first [World Trade Center] tower cascade down into that enormous plume of dust and paper, there was a little voice inside me that said, 'Yeah!' When the second tower came down the same way, that little voice said, 'Beautiful!' When the visage of the Pentagon appeared on the TV with a gaping and smoking hole in its side, that little voice had nearly taken me over, and I felt an urge to pump my fist in the air."

Potvin said he received death threats following the media frenzy and is still shaken.

"I had cop cars out front, family out of the house, and the curtains closed," Potvin said. "That's what you have to do and that's how irresponsible these [local daily newspaper] guys are that call me 'pro–al-Qaeda', especially in the environment we live in today."

Ben West, 2005 WLP Vancouver mayoral candidate and B.C. coordinator for the federal Green party, told the Straight he had to break the news of May's decision to Potvin.

"I thought Kevin was pretty understanding, given the circumstances," West said. "I didn't enjoy doing it. I guess I wish him all the best of luck if he decides to run. They [WLP] are a great group of people."