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Originally Posted by SebC
It's pretty clear what Nenshi stands for. He ran a policy-heavy campaign in a high-profile election that had a massive turnout. This, combined with his sky-high approval rating gives him a strong mandate. I do not need to spell out for you what his platform was, if you don't know you can look it up yourself.
For these Manning Centre candidates to have an equal strength of mandate, they must be explicit and vocal about their intent to maintain/increase new home subsidies. If they do not get that strength of mandate (and I expect they won't), then in voting for the developer's agenda over Nenshi's they would be subverting the expressed will of the voting public.
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I voted for Nenshi, but his mandate isn't overwhelming. Its one vote, that's it. While things will be different this fall (by the looks of things) he didn't exactly destroy everyone else in the race either. It was a three way race. I don't even know, but did he get 50% of the vote?
Also, he did run a policy heavy campaign, and that's great. I know you love to hang your hat on the whole sprawl issue, but not all of us do. I supported him for entirely different reasons and if that kind of 'take it or leave it' attitude was ever brought forward by him, I would be less than thrilled.