The provincial election here is in 4 days and I still don't know who I'm voting for
Posted by
Reagen
Aug 13 '21, 13:47
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Probably the only one I'm ruling out is the Liberals, who currently hold the riding but have a new guy (boundaries changed). I very much did not like the past premier, who was quite hostile to teachers, and also managed to piss off the doctors and nurses. New premier seems a bit over his head and a wet sack personality wise. Hasn't really proven himself on any issues as far as I see it.
I'm a bit split policy wise between the NDP and the PC parties. PCs provincially don't really have any connection to federal Conservatives so that's not a big worry on my part and their leader seems normal if bland. I don't like the NDP leader much and wouldn't want him to be premier, although that's a remote possibility. The NDP is the most likely to beat the Liberal candidate here though.
There's also a Green candidate (ran federally here as well, was the interim federal leader after Liz May) but not hugely enamored with the provincial Greens and they seem like they have a hard road to actually do anything here. Also an independent, which always sets off my kookometer, except he actually stopped by today and I had a good conversation about policies and we had common ground. Except in the middle of that he ducked out to talk to a CBC reporter that was following him around (Colleen Jones!) - which I get it has to be hard to get attention as an independent but that rubs me the wrong way a bit. Also there's the longshot factor and "how would you get things done" factor.
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