All candidates Debate Carnegie Center Vancouver 2015

All candidates Debate Carnegie Center Vancouver East 2015

It Should Be noted that Conservative Party and Liberal Party candidates declined to appear at the debate in Canada’s poorest Postal code. Also missing from this debate is the Pirate Party Of Canada

Here is the Two Hour Debate videoed on October 12th 2015

This is the video Play List in 19 different video segments
HaTTiP: S.J.:McIlwraith

The candidates:

NDP

Jenny Kwan

@JennyKwanBC

Vancouver, BC

After nearly 20 years as the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, Jenny Kwan is hoping to make the jump to federal politics. Kwan moved to Canada from Hong Kong as a child and, at age 26, became the youngest person in Vancouver history to be elected to city council. In 1996, she became one of the first Chinese-Canadians to sit in the provincial legislature and went on to serve as Minister of Municipal Affairs, Minister of Women’s Equality and Minister of Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers. Kwan has also drawn controversy for playing a key role in the ousting of Carole James as NDP party leader in 2010 and for an expense scandal last year over her ex-husband Dan Small having billed the non-profit Portland Hotel Society for a family trip to Disneyland.

Conservative

James Low has a low profile. The ruling party’s website doesn’t offer any biographical information about the bald, bespectacled man of Asian heritage seen in campaign posters, and Low has no discernible online presence. He also chose not to appear at a recent all-candidates meeting.

NOTE The Conservative Declined to come to Canada’s Poorest Postal code to debate.

Liberal

Edward Wong is a lawyer who has served as a director of Junior Achievement of British Columbia and on the executive committee of Junior Achievement of Canada.

NOTE The Liberals Declined to come to Canada’s Poorest Postal code to debate.

Communist

Peter Marcus is a retired hospital worker and former trade unionist who is calling for increased public housing, expanded healthcare and free public transit.

Pirate

Shawn Vulliez

Deputy Leader

is a self-described “interdisciplinary anti-misanthropy crusader” running on a platform advocating for intellectual property reform, privacy protection and greater government openness.

Marxist-Leninist Part Of Canada

Anne Jamieson, a retired nurse with a PhD is sociology, has been with the party since its inception in 1971 and earned 318 votes as a candidate in the 2011 election.

Green Party

A long-time East Side resident, the Inuvik-born Wes Regan is an urban geographer and former executive director of the Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association. He also teaches at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Sustainable Community Development and is a co-founder of Groundswell, a grassroots “alternatives to business” school.

Independent

D. Alex Millar, a writer and former school teacher who now works in customer relations for a software company, is running in order to help bring greater awareness to Bitcoin as an alternative to the flawed global monetary system.