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How can there be an 'all-candidates' debate when candidates from minor parties are excluded?

By Koba Konesavarathan
| September 25, 2015

Podcast




Year: 2015
Genre: Blues
Length: 0:47:56 minutes (65.85 MB)
Format: 48kHz, 192Kbps

Show Notes:

How can there be an 'all-candidates' debate when candidates from minor parties are excluded?

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Is the fair election process a product of removing the voice of certain candidates? Is the democratic ruling achieved by sacrificing the democratic rights of marginalized candidates? Are the major party candidates that participate in the debates really concerned about democracy? In this interview, two party members that were excluded in the all candidates debate in Guelph, Ontario present their views.

Peter Miller is the campaign manager of the Communist Party in Guelph.

Kornelis Klevering is the Marijuana Party's candidate in the Guelph riding.

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free speech Communist Party fair elections canadian democracy Fair Elections Act 2015 elections 2015 Federal Elections attack on democracy

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