The Candidates Were Candid

On August 19th, 2008, Action Read had its Candidates meeting. The people who are running in the election are Frank Valeriote for the Liberals, Karen Levenson for the Animal Alliance Environment Party, Tom King for the NDP, and Mike Nagy for the Green Party. There is also another candidate that was unable to show up and her name is Gloria Kovach and she represents the Conservative Party.

It started off by Kimm doing a brief introduction and greeting. Then the candidates each took turns telling the audience a little about themselves and what their platforms were. The platforms included the environment, low cost housing and jobs these are some of the issues that each party focused on.
Kimm asked for questions from the floor and somebody raised an issue about the heath care system and bringing in more doctors. The candidates response was that they are pushing to have the doctors from different country’s accredited so that they can start right away.

Another question was raised about literacy and funding. The response from the Liberals was that the Conservatives cut the funding for the literacy programs and he promised to bring back the funding for it. Both the NDP and the Green Party where all for the literacy programs as well.

There was a question about reopening the wet dry recycling plant. The Candidates where stumped for a moment then the NDP responded by saying that he didn’t know which was an honest answer and the Liberals told us that it was a municipal matter and not a federal matter. There was also an answer from the Green Party about the environmental issue about the filtration system was not up to code.

After the question’s where over the Candidates had closing remarks about why we should elect them. Kimm thanked everybody for coming and the candidates stayed for a little longer for a few more questions.

I thought it was very informative and it made things a lot clearer for me to choose who I will vote for. When I was talking to a few people there was a lot of positive feed back on how the candidates presented themselves and about what they really care about. I’m glad I had an opportunity to be there and listen to what was said and meet the Candidates that are running.
-Andrew