Who should lead the Ontario New Democrats? - Michael Prue

As some folks are aware, there is a leadership race going on for he Ontario NDP. I am a supporter of Michael Prue. No other leadership candidate impressed me or spoken to "my passion".

My passion is "public education" and I am a public school trustee. I strongly believe that

Our kids live together and play together in their communities, let's have them learn together too!

I believe that either we fund all or fund none to be fair to all. I believe in a unified secular school system in both official languages of Canada like this organization and this organization, or this collective organization, and the adopted policy position of this political organization. Both Quebec and NFL only publically fund secular school systems in both offical languages.

I believe in equity, fairness, and non-discrimination that are the underlying principles of social democrats.

Rabble.ca has provided each Ontario NDP leadership candidate with opportunity with a featured interview on their webpage. The new leader will be decided this weekend. I will be there as part of he Prue Crew - go Michael!

Michael Prue strongly believes that the NDP membership should debate the issues of our day. We should not shy away but embrace our strong social democratic roots. Prue believes this is fundamental.

Prue's view is that he is returning the NDP to its roots as a democratic party willing to discuss and take a stand on tough issues.

I like that Prue is not

"terrified of the membership and what the membership might say. I am not terrified. I think we have nothing to fear from our members."

CONSIDERING

"When they've done polling ... 70 per cent said they'd rather go to one [school board]. There might be a little bit of push but we as New Democrats need to know what's best for the children ... we need to discuss that and I'm not afraid of the discussion."

Prue IS MOREOVER strong in leadership in other areas, whether policy, economics, industry, labour, party growth, and election campaigning.

Why I am voting for Prue

"[I] can best capture that middle ground that the NDP needs to win. I can capture it by speaking the language of people who traditionally have not voted for us but who are sympathetic to our goals and our ideals. I can do that by a combination of my experience and my beliefs and my ability to manage the economy but I can also do that and will also do that by restructuring the party in order to make sure we are not running a campaign based on winning only 20 seats. We have to aim for government; the only way to do that is to run in every single riding. The other parties run candidates seriously in every single riding and until we do that, we will not be seen as electable."