What questions have you asked your local candidates (regardless of whether it's a local, provincial/territorial or federal election) that they don't always seem to answer during elections?
One that I've never had an answer for from any candidate from any political party is:
1. How do you intend to reduce the rate of classical unemployment?
Scary enough, many canadidates don't even know what classical unemployment is. Even among those who do, they refuse to give an answer, may e-mails going unanswered.
Other questions that I've asked many times in the past and have sometimes gotten an answer for are:
2. How do you intend to deal with cyclical unemployment in such a way as to avoid inflation and higher interest rates at a later time?
Though some have answered the first part of the question, they're usually stumped about how to deal with the second part of the question... or vice versa. I've never had one yet give a clear answer as to how to deal with both parts of the question at the same time.
3. How do you intend to deal with structural unemployment, including skills-deficient and geographical unemployment?
Some have answered this one, but again I've gotten candidates fluster over it election after election.
4. How do you intend to deal with hidden unemployment?
Another one most candidate don't know how to answer.
The following is a question that I've often got a pie-in-the sky answer to, but nothing based in reality:
5. How do you intend to make or keep inflation, the Bank rate, and government debt low?
And the following is one I have never gotten a logical answer to yet beyond throging more money at it:
6. How do you intend to improve second-language learning to get results better than 15% bilingualism nationwide (StatsCan 2006) for all the money currenty being spent on it so as to help bridge the two solitudes for the sake of national unity?
I'm sure others here have likely come up with similar issues from your own local candidates who either refuse to answer certain questions you may ask or give eloquent non-answers to them election after election after election. Please share them in this thread.
One that I've never had an answer for from any candidate from any political party is:
1. How do you intend to reduce the rate of classical unemployment?
Scary enough, many canadidates don't even know what classical unemployment is. Even among those who do, they refuse to give an answer, may e-mails going unanswered.
Other questions that I've asked many times in the past and have sometimes gotten an answer for are:
2. How do you intend to deal with cyclical unemployment in such a way as to avoid inflation and higher interest rates at a later time?
Though some have answered the first part of the question, they're usually stumped about how to deal with the second part of the question... or vice versa. I've never had one yet give a clear answer as to how to deal with both parts of the question at the same time.
3. How do you intend to deal with structural unemployment, including skills-deficient and geographical unemployment?
Some have answered this one, but again I've gotten candidates fluster over it election after election.
4. How do you intend to deal with hidden unemployment?
Another one most candidate don't know how to answer.
The following is a question that I've often got a pie-in-the sky answer to, but nothing based in reality:
5. How do you intend to make or keep inflation, the Bank rate, and government debt low?
And the following is one I have never gotten a logical answer to yet beyond throging more money at it:
6. How do you intend to improve second-language learning to get results better than 15% bilingualism nationwide (StatsCan 2006) for all the money currenty being spent on it so as to help bridge the two solitudes for the sake of national unity?
I'm sure others here have likely come up with similar issues from your own local candidates who either refuse to answer certain questions you may ask or give eloquent non-answers to them election after election after election. Please share them in this thread.
