First time I have come across a Canadian who calls himself a Radical Centrist. Here is his reply to a short news item at a Liberal Democrat site, The news piece appears below. Billy -------------------------------------------------------------------- _Radical Centrist_ (http://thoughtundermined.com/) Posted 14th April 2011 at 3:06 pm | _Permalink_ (http://www.libdemvoice.org/one-canadian-online-political-campaigning-rule-unlikely-to-make-it-to-the-uk -23756.html#comment-171328) This is a bit of a niggly point for me, but as a Canadian, I am slightly bothered by your headline for this story. It isn’t really a Canadian political campaign rule, but rather one (probably) unique to the British Columbia New Democratic Party. I doubt even the federal NDP requires this of their leadership candidates, and I’ve certainly never heard of any other party at any level, federal or provincial requiring something like this. Maybe there are some – but this is the first time I’ve ever heard of anything like this. Calling it a “Canadian rule” makes it sound as if this is a common-place practice in the country. It’s not – it’s unique to one party in one province. ==================================================== Liberal Democrat Voice / Canada One Canadian online political campaigning rule unlikely to make it to the UK By _Mark Pack_ (http://www.libdemvoice.org/author/mpack) | Published 14th April 2011 - 2:24 pm
Canada’s CBC News _reports_ (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/03/02/bc-simons-ndp-passwords.html) : A politician running to lead the B.C. New Democrats says he is refusing to comply with a requirement of leadership hopefuls to hand over the passwords to their social media accounts. Nicholas Simons, an NDP MLA who’s hoping to run in the leadership race, says he’s left that information off his nomination package. The party’s intent is to try to ensure there are no skeletons hidden in candidates’ private profiles. As the report mentions, leaving aside the gauche politics of this, it’s also rather unwise to demand someone hands over passwords when it is a common feature of terms and conditions of services that you shouldn’t do so. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
