Re: โGreen party offers substandard candidates in recent election,โ Oct. 13
As I am the candidate that Ms. Steiner wrote about in her opinion piece, I would like to respond to some of the statements made.
When I announced to a room that โthe Greens probably arenโt going to form governmentโ I was being realistic. I did follow that statement by indicating what I would do as the MPP, though that was not reported.
When I said that I โโฆ donโt understand womenโ I was trying to use humour to highlight that I, or any other man on the panel, couldnโt truly understand the issues that specifically affect women. I wasnโt trying to marginalize womenโs issues, I just gave a real answer, which some others did not. To say that โwe need to get more women involved in politicsโ does not address anything.
And finally, in a bit of reporting that can only be called incompetence, when asked who the greatest Canadian was, I didnโt say โI donโt know that many great Canadians.โ I said โI donโt know that I could pick just one.โ
When I didnโt know the answer to a question, I said so. When Eric Davis or Elizabeth Witmer didnโt know the answer to something, they spoke about how great or terrible the last eight years have been (depending on the speaker.) I represented what the Green party stands for: doing politics differently. In my opinion, the Greens did not drop the ball in Kitchener-Waterloo. By opting for the status quo, the voters did.
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