revsdd
Well-Known Member
My choice here is down to either the Greens or the Liberals, although it's really a moot point. Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock is a very safe Conservative riding.
We haven't had any all-candidates meetings near where we live. Our local Green candidate is a university student who has apparently volunteered some time in Elizabeth May's Parliament Hill office while attending Carleton University. The Liberal is a local small business owner who lost a bid to be elected to the Brock Township Council last year. The Conservative incumbent isn't especially high profile, but he's quite safe. He's a former broadcaster who then served as Executive Assistant to an MP for a few years before being elected himself in 2011. The NDP are running a local realtor. The Peoples Party candidate has spent his life in IT apparently, but on his campaign website under "Why I'm Running" he makes reference to the Canadian Bill of Rights of 1960, prints its text and then says "This original Bill of Rights brought together four geographic regions - Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia - under a single and united nation." Uh. That was the British North America Act of 1867, not the Canadian Bill of Rights of 1960.
We haven't had any all-candidates meetings near where we live. Our local Green candidate is a university student who has apparently volunteered some time in Elizabeth May's Parliament Hill office while attending Carleton University. The Liberal is a local small business owner who lost a bid to be elected to the Brock Township Council last year. The Conservative incumbent isn't especially high profile, but he's quite safe. He's a former broadcaster who then served as Executive Assistant to an MP for a few years before being elected himself in 2011. The NDP are running a local realtor. The Peoples Party candidate has spent his life in IT apparently, but on his campaign website under "Why I'm Running" he makes reference to the Canadian Bill of Rights of 1960, prints its text and then says "This original Bill of Rights brought together four geographic regions - Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia - under a single and united nation." Uh. That was the British North America Act of 1867, not the Canadian Bill of Rights of 1960.