Congratulations to new MPP Aislinn Clancy! That's quite the green riding you have there!
#KitCen #KitCentre #Kitchener #WRpoli #ONpoli #GPO #GreenParty
>Green candidate Aislinn Clancy wins Kitchener Centre byelection | CBC News
>Green candidate Aislinn Clancy has won the Kitchener Centre provincial byelection to become the riding's next MPP.
$SPOUSE points out that by acknowledging the other fourteen candidates, people might wonder why their vote for them doesn't count, and might spur on calls for #ProportionalRepresentation.
And that, in turn, would probably result in having some of those fourteen candidates and parties elected in the future. Which would upset the establishment. So the establishment chooses to deny them and all voters the right to an informed choice at the polls.
Yes, it would take a long time to get all the questions and answers from eighteen candidates. Yes, it would be unwieldy to have all eighteen candidates on camera. Yes, it would be expensive to rent a venue to accommodate all eighteen candidates.
But democracy has never been quick, easy, or cheap.
I'm annoyed, as always, that the debate host said "There are four candidates in the race..."
There are *eighteen* candidates in the race! This is where democracy dies, when the media does not respect the electoral process and does not invite all candidates to an "All-Candidate Debate".
#KitCen #KitCentre #Kitchener #WRpoli #ONpoli
Edit: link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EriXr-zoJc
>i don't even know who the other candidates are
Ah, you need https://poliblog.jonkman.ca/Poliblog-Elections/2023-Provincial-Byelection-Kitchener/
Bob Jonkman