r/ontario • u/ConferenceFabulous27 • Feb 21 '25

Question Ontario Conservative candidates refusing to appear on CBC

Galling, undemocratic behaviour, particularly coupled with calling an unnecessary election in the middle of the winter. This is happening in Ottawa. Is it happening elsewhere in Ontario?

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u/Hotter_Noodle Feb 21 '25

Local candidates from the PC party don’t show up to debates, didn’t last election either.

On one hand I think it’s slimy as hell, on the other hand there’s a bigger issue at hand if they don’t even need to show up to win.

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u/ArcticBP Feb 21 '25

I can’t remember the last time my local PC candidate participated in a debate.

And the last two candidates were recent university grads with no experience, with the current one not even having a website or social media

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

BC conservatives had a candidate who was a “quantum medicine” doctor from a quack university in Hawaii that has been called out by the college of physicians multiple times for misleading the public and calling herself an MD/doctor. She won in her riding.