In every riding we reported onāfrom TaiaiakoānāParkdaleāHigh Park to TorontoāSt. Paulās to BowmanvilleāOshawa North to across Peelāthe pattern has been the same. Most Liberal and NDP candidates have been willing to sit and answer questions. Every Conservative candidate has ignored or declined our requests for interviews.
To be clear, this issue isnāt specific to The Local. TorontoāSt. Paulās candidate Don Stewart didnāt just ignore us, he turned down The Toronto Star and National Post. Across ridings, and across media outletsāfrom the CBC to Global News to sympathetic conservative newspapers like the National Postācandidates from the Conservative Party are simply refusing to talk with the press.
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It makes perfect sense though. The party has spent a lot of time being the ānot Trudeauā Party. A lot of voters vote on vibes and donāt read the platforms or anything else.
If they donāt have a platform or positions then they can be whatever a potential voter projects on them. It works. Ask a conservative voter why they are voting conservative and the majority wonāt talk about the conservatives they will talk about the liberals or NDP.
Campaign manager : Whatever you do, donāt sound like Trump or Maga when you speak.
Candidate: Donāt speak. Got it.
literally the only thing they have is the party affiliation noted beside their names on the ballot.
they certainly havenāt got a platform or policy to benefit all voters. talking will just expose that fact and open them up to āhardā questions they donāt want to (even try to) answer āon the recordā.
Most individualās political opinions these days just has to do with hating the other side.
People donāt like to be educated, because it challenges the options they want to have.
If the Conservative party doesnāt trust their candidates enough to allow them to speak to the media, why should we trust them with our votes?
This party is so clearly presenting a facade that they canāt even afford to talk to the press for the risk of poking a hole. This also means that the party leadership has ironclad grip on its MPs and therefore when in government the decisions really come down to a tiny circle of people with PP at the helm. This is how it was when Harper was our PM too. It was scary even back in 2012.
They are incapable of talking without saying the quiet parts out loud. Silence is better than spilling the beans on evil.
They know the āBetter to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.ā
This is what embracing shoddy practices gets you. Nobody even wants to talk to you.
