Calgary Federal Politics

[suburbia]

Originally Posted by suburbia

I don't think anyone here is supporting Peter Kent, Ezra Levant and their crowd, so let's not make a strawman. The question really is, how much upside do the greens have vs. the potential upside of a philosophically more centrist that also has a good environmental head on his shoulders. The optics of the greens, as you know, is a one trick pony / single issue party. Be that the reality or not, a single green in the parliament will not result in anything for Calgary, and will not really even afford him much of a voice when it comes to committees and the like. That's a reality.

Originally Posted by fusili

How is it a single issue party when they have policies on electoral reform, affordable housing, sustainable funding for municipal infrastructure, food safety, the long-form census, funding for scientific research, early childhood education, modernizing the electrical grid, refugee health care, income splitting, EI, income tax changes for those making less than 20K/year, foreign policy, youth employment and creating municipal superfunds for wastewater treatment, brownfield remediation, mass transit and housing?

Fusili - you clearly didn't read my post very thoughtfully and have created a false strawman once again. I didn't say they were a one trick pony, what I said was that this is the optics of the greens. I highlighted this in context of there being limited upside to the 25% they are currently polling at. Read the entire bolded red part.

Originally Posted by PoscStudent

The big problem with Chris Turner is he will have little influence as a member of a party not even recognized in the House of Commons.

PoscStudent - absolutely. I highlighted this in my prior post also (bolded blue part), however, Fusili chose not to read or respond to the post comprehensively, instead, responded to an argument that I was not even making in the first place!