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Originally Posted by Starfishy
I agree that CPC candidates in Alberta are a lock. But when I look at the list of CPC candidates in Alberta I don't see any 19 year old bar tenders. Even though they were a lock the party looks to have put some effort into picking the candidates. Even when I look at the list of Liberal candidates riding in Alberta (with next to no chance of being elected) I don't see any teenagers.
I understand that the NDP didn't expect them to win, but you would think they could prepare for the unexpected by at least picking some people that spoke french? It just seems crazy to me that they couldn't find some french speaking adults that had respectable jobs and a sense of responsibility.
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They were put in for the same reason why the NDP parachuted two Edmontonians into Calgary, neither of whom bothered to campaign. The goal in those ridings was just to have a name on the ballot, collect a few hundred votes, and keep that vote subsidy money coming in.
If the NDP had any inkling that there was a chance in hell they win these ridings, you would have seen different candidates.
But who knows? Maybe one of them will actually turn into an effective politician. The rest will spend their time sitting on the back bench doing their nails or picturing that hot, 20-something page by the Speaker naked. For the most part, they are just statistics. They will stand when Layton tells them to, and sit when ordered.