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Originally Posted by thurmas
City needs ranked balotts and a party system for council like Montreal has. Nothing gets done if we continue to just get crusty personalities with no vision or platform they are running on.
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Disagree on the party system.
I think we need some of the political class here, the unelected types, to be honest with the candidates and encourage people who truly want to get involved to do so at the grassroots of politics. Very few of these candidates even have experience on community-level boards or service like that. Get elected to a school board, participate in community councils, attend committee meetings, speak at committee and council meetings, run for council, run for MLA, SERVE THE COMMUNITY. Build a profile.
Cannot believe how many people just think, "oh I'll run for mayor" or in Bokhari's case now Premier and Mayor with zero political experience. In both cases you're serving a constituency that's approaching or just over a million people. It's not an entry-level political position but unfortunately it's being treated that way.