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Originally Posted by Ashartus
I don't think that's a good criterion -all it would take was someone to give the Rhinoceros party enough money to file nomination fees in every riding and you could have a joke candidate in the national debate, even if the party gets absolutely no votes. Meanwhile it's possible the big parties may not have a candidate in every riding, in some cases not by choice (e.g. their candidate has to withdraw or is booted from the party for criminal behaviour).
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Well the Greens are already doing it, so why not the Rhinos?
But there has to be some sort of control on who gets into the thing, and IMO anyone to be included HAS to have at least national interests as their platform regardless of if one agrees with it or not.