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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.
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.
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Date: 2011-04-22 08:35 pm (UTC)Distressing in any case.