r/burnaby • u/kaze987 Capitol Hill • 1d ago
Local News How can BC Conservatives simply not respond to local media request for questionnaire and expect to rep the community?
As reported by Freshet News, they sent candidate profiles to all parties for publishing. See which party consistently did not even reply...
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u/SqueamyP 1d ago
Cons know they can only hurt their own chances and lose voters by opening their mouths.
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u/perverseintellect 7h ago
Same thing for many of the cons running in the States. Many of them refuse to debate. It's a conservative epidemic.
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u/NudeBeachEnthusiast 1d ago
It's sickening. If their policy ideas are so good, why won't they share them? They are the only party without a fully costed platform out for the public to look at it. How many of you can ignore a key deadline at your workplace like that?? It's insanity.
They are counting on enough "vote blue no matter who" types showing up. Such a disgusting slap in the face to the public.
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u/kaze987 Capitol Hill 1d ago
And theyre not even hard questions! They just have nothing to offer!
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u/NudeBeachEnthusiast 1d ago
Tell your friends, family and neighbours. There's still time! If they get a majority, we're fucked beyond belief.
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u/SadAccountant3105 1d ago
As I walk around my neighborhood with small tent cities in what was once safe trails I wonder, how can it get worse. And maybe it should to appreciate what we had
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u/Impossible-Fan3014 1d ago
This is disappointing. Zero effort and they expect to be given your vote. At least make an attempt to show you can represent voters.
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u/ssnistfajen 1d ago
They do this because they can get away with it. The disappointing reality is a large chunk of the voter base will vote for them no matter what. Failure of so-called democratic society and civic education.
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u/VancouverWriter1984 1d ago
They know there's dissatisfaction with the NDP out there. They also know the more they speak the more people realize they may be unhappy with the NDP but the alternative is way worse. Their best tactic is to shut up, get elected, and THEN unleash the crazy and stupid on us. *Shudder*
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u/akaneila 1d ago
Conservatives everywhere are terrible I don't know why anyone expects anything of them other than misery
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u/vinistois 1d ago
Freshet's questionnaire is about the local candidate, but the party positions are still on the record even when a candidate won't answer. I put together a quiz that compares the 5 main parties on 13 provincial issues, and every score links to where it came from (platform, news story, party statement).
The code and the sources are on GitHub if you want to check how any party got scored: https://github.com/vinistoisr/bc-vote-helper
The quiz itself: https://votebc.vinceroyer.ca
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u/kyflexred2 1d ago
Conservatives at all levels of government don't want any gotcha moments so they often don't show up to debates
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u/Emma_232 1d ago
Reminds me of the Federal all candidates meetings in the last couple elections. Most of the time the Conservatives were no shows. Why would I give my vote to, and basically hire people who don’t make the effort?
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u/porp_crawl 1d ago
Counting on a combination of kneejerk responses:
People upset with the NDP and voting literally anyone else.
People who are into the "culture war" and will vote "conservative" on the single issue of "culture war." Doesn't matter if they're a criminal or a pedophile or simply unfit for the role - if this hypothetical voter even cared enough to investigate - it's a FU vote against people/culture that this hypothetical voter feels threatened by.
I think that it's be interesting/funny to ask all political candidates on their position if their child came out as transgender.
And whether it would make a difference if they were MtF or FtM - or anyplace else across the spectrums.
It's not even like the NDP has done anything much for the the LGTBQ+ community.
I'm still voting despite being in a "safe" district because voting matters, final counts matter, and out of general principle.
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u/AfterShave997 13h ago
It's like that in the states as well, the conservative movement is in shambles worldwide.
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u/Prudent_Slug Deer Lake 1d ago
The Conservatives aren't running on ideas, they are running on dissatisfaction with the NDP and outrage. For many of their candidates, the more they talk, the more unappealing they become to the mainstream. The same thing happened at the federal level. The moment the outrage died down, their support dropped.