Compiled by Stuart Trew
Everything you never wanted to know about your local candidates
Under the assumption that politicians are also human beings, and that you can actually learn a lot about a person from what they like, XPress asked every candidate in Ottawa about their cultural intake last year. But wait! We’re in no way condoning voting for frivolous reasons, so for policy wonks, we also asked them about health care, security and Canadian values. Note: Not all candidates returned surveys in time. Further note: We’re pretty sure not everyone understood the individual rights versus economic interests question but we’re running it anyway because some of the answers were pretty good. We took individual rights to mean human, legal and Charter rights – pretty important things that should never be trampled on by the state for any reason. Yet so many people chose “false” that we had to assume it was a poorly worded question. Sorry.
OTTAWA CENTRE
Name John Akpata
Party Marijuana Party, since June 2004
Current job Writer/poet
Claim to fame Spoken word performer and House of Trouble columnist in Ottawa XPress
What do you think your riding wants you to achieve in Parliament? To help chant down the Babylon system, and end the stranglehold of the Baby Boomers
What do you think Canadians value the most about their country? Their health card and passport
What is the biggest threat to that value? The Empire/New World Order – only rich people will have health cards, and poor people won’t be able to afford a bus pass
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