Went to a Candidates' Debate Last Night...

[dewline]

...and it was by turns entertaining and predictable. It was the Ottawa-Orléans debate sponsored by the local chamber of commerce at the Shenkman Arts Centre, of course, and I'm wondering if I couldn't have better spent my time doing something else in retrospect.

The format, the lack of all the candidates running for the office - paradoxically, it was the NDP candidate who didn't show up for this one, while two other events planned for earlier on got cancelled by Harper's man in Orléans refusing to attend - on the stage...the containment and vetting of questions from the voter audience...not entirely satisfying.

I have to admit: I left early. Not the best show of respect I could have given, true, and yet I don't feel we as voters were respected in the first instance.

No, two wrongs don't make a right.

I may come back to this subject later. Possibly with photos added.

Comments

[spross.livejournal.com]

What else is new... Three elections in four years? They say the Conservatives were in contempt of Parliament, it might more accurate to say Parliament is in contempt of the public...

[dewline.livejournal.com]

It might be argued that the New Conservatives view Parliament as being in contempt of the Government, rather than the other way around.

Distressing in any case.