Only the Yukon stands in the way of the Green party reaching its goal of a candidate in every federal riding in Canada.

Matt Takash with the Green Party of Canada's head office in Ottawa confirmed this morning it has 307 candidates ready to run in the June 28 election.

During a press conference this morning in Toronto, the Green party complained about being left out of the televised leadership debates. Peter Elgie, the party's candidate in the Toronto riding of St. Paul's, also said the party has 307 candidates.

There are 308 ridings in the nation. The Yukon is the only one in the land not to have a Green candidate lined up.

'No one's come forward yet,' said Andy Shadrack, the B.C.-based organizer who's been in charge of trying to find a candidate for the party.

The deadline for filing a nomination form for this election is next Monday, June 7.

With the deadline looming and no one in place, the Green party is sending an organizer from Prince George, Elizabeth Van Gool, to the Yukon to flush out a candidate.

Van Gool, who is set to come to Whitehorse tomorrow, was unavailable for comment today.

Elgie said during the press conference the party will run a candidate in all 308 constituencies.

However, even if the Green party fails to find a contender for the Yukon, it will still have gotten close to tripling the number of candidates it ran in 2000, when 111 carried the Green banner nationwide.

In 1997, 79 candidates ran for the Green party.

The Greens have never fielded a candidate in the Yukon before.

In 2000, Whitehorse resident Bob Jickling considered running for the Green party but said the timing of the election did not work out for him.

Jickling also told the Star during the campaign that a 'great number of people' thought about running for the Greens.

While the Greens have yet to get that one, last candidate, two other parties which will be running in considerably fewer than 308 ridings already have people in the Yukon.

Elections Canada officially accepted Sean Davey's nomination Tuesday to run here for the Marijuana Party.

Geoff Capp, who's run three times before, is planning to represent the Christian Heritage Party again.

In 2000, the Marijuana Party ran 73 candidates while the Christian Heritage Party had fewer than 50 candidates.

Fifty candidates were needed in 2000 to have the party's name on the ballot. That law has been since tossed out by the courts.

If the Green party can find a candidate, the Yukon will field six candidates. Six is the record number of candidates in the territory and has happened twice, in 1993 and 1997.