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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.
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Yes, I'm familiar with his position (even agree with some of it); but his position as Mayor is not to implement his "agenda".
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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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The Manning Centre isn't "running" candidates; they are hosting training sessions geared to civic candidate hopefuls.
Obviously we all want candidates to be open about where they stand on issues. Unfortunately we see it time and time again people changing their stances on things. No party or municipality is immune from this. That's why people say "politicians are all the same, they all lie"