By Staff
October 10th, 2022
BURLINGTON, ON
After a comfortable day with family and friends – things begin to move a little more briskly as we get into the week.
The Roseland Community Organization is hold two political events. Not debates – question and answer sessions.
The first will be with the candidates for the ward 4 council seat, it will start at 7 pm, the second, which will take place after the ward 4 candidates at approximately 8:15 – will be for the five candidates who want to be the next Mayor.
These five have been heard before at the Chamber of Commerce event – nothing new or all that interesting from the four candidates.
Mayor Marianne Meed Ward stuck to her positions – nothing new – given that she is so far ahead of what the other four had to say she just has to keep her head down to cruise to victory on the 24th.
However, in the world of politics – anything can happen. Rick Goldring blew his brains out at a debate in 2018 when he made a dumb comment that Meed Ward took and made it work for her.
The events will be moderated by Rick Burgess, a onetime candidate himself for the Office of Mayor.
The event will take place in the Roseland Room at the Port Nelson United Church where space is kind of limited.
The Gazette will be videographing the event and running it on our Facebook page. As soon as it is up, we will publish the link. Expect to see it close to noon on Wednesday. It will remain in the archives.
A bit of a puff ball event.
I thought and hoped there might be questions from the floor which would be more pointed than the general type questions put by the moderator.
All candidates seem to agree on what the issues are that are facing the city. Very few specific actions to address those issues are identified or enunciated by candidates. The non-incumbents generally say things like “they will change the way things are done”, but don’t say what that “differently” means. Or they say “they will look at what is done in other jurisdictions and bring the best of those to Burlington”. Should they not have already done that homewirk and know what those imports will be?
I am not aware of one single non-incumbent candidate city-wide expressing what they would have done differently to how the present administration acted; especially as respects to the ultra high rise downtown development. It is easy to criticize but way more difficult to put forward firm viable alternatives.
In my opinion, MMW, Kearns, Stolte, and Sharman all deserve without question to be re-elected Those four will.not always agree but i believe they can work together.
Diversity of opinion is a strength not a weakness!
Is there a link posted somewhere that we can watch the candidates Q & A ?
Thanks Pepper
The link is on the screen. Hard to miss
Thank you for doing this Pepper. It will be interesting to fact check the comments made by the candidates. Knowing it is being videographed, will hopefully keep them honest.
Port Nelson United Church NOT Port Union United Church (as shown in the headline) !
Mary Hill is 2 for 2.
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