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Look.
A political candidate managing their message and hiding from the evil media is one thing.
But refusing to show up at all-candidates meetings to discuss and debate the issues, in their own words, in front of real, live constituents is quite another.
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Based on our analysis of the StealthCons over the last two election cycles, it has become increasingly clear that the practice of ducking all-candidates' meetings is now an endemic practice amongst many of the good and fine folks that make their deal at the cross-roads when they sign on the dotted-line and agree to be stage-managed by the party of Stephen Harper.
Most recent case in point, the (not-so-progressive) Conservative candidate who is running in next week's New Westminister-Coquitlam by-election.
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Now.
Why does this stuff matter?
Because if there is even one real voter amongst the audience* who turned off the TV, put on his or her coat, and headed out the door into the rain to hear what a candidate has to say, unscripted, who got shafted by Ms. Dilworth's non-appearance.....
Well.
That would be fundamentally antithetical to all that participatory democracy in a full and open marketplace of ideas is supposed to be about.
In other words, that would be truly anti-Canadian.
So, given all that.......
Why does Stephen Harper, and the Luntzians that walk amongst him and his, hate Canada so much?
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*As opposed to the rent-a-voter crowd and the true believers of all stripes that also show up at these things.
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