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I voted for Laura Mae Lindo twice because she was a great speaker and because I thought that as a person of colour I thought that she could best represent a community with an increasing number of immigrants. Without her to vote for, I will be going back to voting Green. I think that Aislinn Clancy will make an excellent MPP.
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It certainly is going to be an interesting race. I don’t actually think being a stanch NIMBY will hurt Chapman as much as I wish it would, I don’t think many people pay much attention to it.
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I think Chapman has local name recognition - but also NDP infighting this last week or two has been pretty bad for “the brand”. Seems like an election for the Greens to take, in theory…
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Neither candidate can achieve much other than being a thorn in the paw of Dougie. I'm sure Debbie would be far more annoying as an MPP, but I would personally rather see Aislinn get the promotion.
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I'm curious to get some detailed information on their stances on certain topics, like nuclear energy in Ontario and the push for improved GO transit in KW. If either Aislinn or Debbie outshines the other in their policies on those topics, I will probably vote in line with that. As many of us here, I voted for Laura Mae Lindo and Mike Morrice, and both are backing their respective party candidates.
The provincial leaders for the NDP and Greens are both people I support (Marit Stiles and Mike Schreiner), so that doesn't even make much difference in how I will choose to vote. Right now, I just need both candidates to share a detailed platform on their websites, because there is nothing of substance posted yet.
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I don't live in Kit-Cen so can only observe, but my distaste of Chapman would definitely put my vote to Clancy if I were eligible.
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When Left Wing parties resist every action to build housing, it is no great surprise that the young and working class would flock to the conservatives. It feels like the only people who can afford to vote NDP right now are comfortably wealthy homeowners and/or passionate social justice warriors like our pal Beisan.
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1: like I said on Reddit, making me laugh and cheer for the PCs makes me angry
2: there’s nothing more reliable than a self-own from the NDP.
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Queen of the NIMBYs is spot on. Someone ought to write that on her Duke Street office windows with some dry erase markers.
