Wednesday, October 06, 2010

RRC MAYORAL FORUM

On October 6th, 2010, Winnipeg mayoral candidates Sam Katz and Judy Wasylycia-Leis duked it out at Red River College at a mayoral forum.


Wasylycia-Leis spoke at length about her vision of safer streets, which involve community hubs. The concept has been elaborated and spoken about ad nauseam. I first wrote about the topic in a previous blog post on September 9th. I thought her proposed initiatives were redundant then, and that view has not changed.


Photo from CTV




What has changed is the fact that I'm absolutely sick and tired of hearing about her community hubs.


Katz did what he does best: said next to nothing new. I wrote a blog post on September 19th indicating that it was in Katz' best interest to keep quiet on controversial issues. This view has also not changed.


Photo from CTV




It's Katz' election to lose. All he needs to do is deflect questions, promote past initiatives, and take a few jabs at Wasylycia-Leis from time to time.


Although the forum was heated at times, there was nothing meaningful or new that was elaborated upon. At the end of the day, it was interesting to watch, but lacked any substance.

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