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Ottawa municipal candidates could learn a lot: "COPE proved it could devastatingly message and mobilize against a multimillion-$ political machine... COPE also made a major concession to the Greens... when its own mayoral candidate... suspended her campaign to avoid splitting the progressive vote"

The questions I sent in for the #Ottawa mayor candidates debate tonight: 1) Neil Saravanamuttoo previously said he was against splitting the vote, and implied that he'd drop out if he was behind and his candidacy could undermine a potential defeat of incumbent Mark Sutcliffe. So, what about now?

2) Mark Sutcliffe's website had* land acknowledgement stating "Ottawa is built on un-ceded Algonquin Anishinabe territory." The problem is the official Civic & Cultural Protocol makes clear the name is Anishinabe Algonquin Nation, to be used in all city communication. So how come the mayor doesn't?

*: Sutcliffe's revised website for the current election campaign has no land acknowledgement at all, at least not on the main page where it used to be, nor anywhere else I could see. **The article (by me) about the Protocol quoted in the previous post screenshot is here: archive.org/details/algo...

Anyway here is the actual #Ottawa #mayor debate by CBC with Mark Sutcliffe, Jeff Leiper, Neil Saravanamuttoo, and Alex Lawson. #AllWhitePanel I listened to about half; not very exciting. But when they got to the "yes/no" questions, the answers sure weren't direct "yes" or "no" for the most part lol