{"id":11947,"date":"2015-09-16T09:34:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=11947"},"modified":"2015-09-16T09:34:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:34:46","slug":"silence-is-not-golden-when-it-comes-to-federal-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/silence-is-not-golden-when-it-comes-to-federal-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSilence is not golden\u201d when it comes to Federal debates"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Re: Conservatives to skip Vote Smart debates, September 10)<\/em><\/p>\n

With all the hype of the election\u2019s promises and criticisms of the other party\u2019s campaign platform, it is important to critically examine some issues which do not get the media attention; specifically Native rights, poverty and veterans\u2019 benefits need to be highlighted.
\nWe should look at the larger picture of the welfare of the Nation.
\nThe all candidates\u2019 Vote Smart debates, for two local ridings, at the Aurora Cultural Centre on September 16 and 17, will provide a good opportunity to discuss these issues.
\nHowever, in order to have a debate, you need the Conservative candidates to show up for this meeting.
\nSo far, the Conservative candidates are telling the organizers of the meeting that they will not attend. This is a democratic society where information should be open and transparent; it should not be suppressed.
\nBut, the Conservative candidates are following the narrow party approach dictated by Harper.
\nIn this case, silence is not golden. What topics and opinions are the local Conservative candidates avoiding and skipping away from now?<\/p>\n

Jim Jackson
\nAurora
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(Re: Conservatives to skip Vote Smart debates, September 10) With all the hype of the election\u2019s promises and criticisms of the other party\u2019s campaign platform, it is important to critically examine some issues which do not get the media attention; specifically Native rights, poverty and veterans\u2019 benefits need to be highlighted. We should look at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-36H","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-02 01:02:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}