After Nine (ME) - Episode 1.02 (August 26th, 2019)

Our second show, this one featuring the two candidates on/near the left of the political spectrum in the riding of Cariboo-Prince George, the NDP’s Heather Sapergia and the Green Party’s Mackenzie Kerr. We just have the full version of the show this week, with commercials and announcements. Listen through the whole program and you can learn not just about the candidates but about where global issues meet the local scene, especially the proposed plastics manufacturing plant in Prince George.

I do not mind saying that I ended the show unwilling to vote for either candidate. Neither was willing to back the kind of Green New Deal we need and both are choosing to play a dangerous game of footsie with the fracking industry, refusing to abandon their support of a proposed plastics plant that will run on 100% fracked gas from new fracked wells. So I will be bringing them back on the program later in the campaign to see if they are prepared to stop equivocating on fracking.