2 THE VOICE, THURSDAY, OCT. 15, 2015 EDITOR ERIN BOE tlarge Hot student issues for federal election Election party issues 2015 Green Party Liberal Party Conservative Party NDP Party » [we Os NDP By JASON HAMILTON Stu d ent - Abolish tuition fees for college, - Increase Canada Student Grant - Expanding the number of low- - Increasing student grants and university, and skills training pro- _| for low-income students to $3,000 and middle-income students eli- eliminating interest on student lo ans and grams for students. per year for full-time students, and | gible for the Canada Student Grant. | loans over next seven years. e duca tion to $1,800 for part-time students. program by making these grants - Eliminate any existing or future applicable to short-term, vocational | - Boosting funding for the Canada student federal debt above $10,000. | - No repayment until graduates programs. Student Grants program. are earning an income of at least - Abolish charging interest on new | $25,000 per year. student loans and will increase available funding for bursaries. M i n i mum - Implement a federal minimum - No plans for a minimum wage - No plans for a minimum wage - Reinstating the federal minimum wage of $15 an hour. increase. increase. wage and raising it to $15 an hour. wage “$15 an hour is our platform. We - Eliminated the federal minimum also want to introduce a guaran- wage in 1996. teed livable income.” - Elain Ng, Green candidate Mar i ij uana - Legalize marijuana by removing it | - Legalize, regulate and restrict - Keep marijuana illegal. - Immediately decriminalizing from the drug schedule. access to marijuana. possession of personal amounts of legalization “Marijuana is ‘infinitely worse’ marijuana. than tobacco.” — Stephen Harper, prime minister - Will look at legalization. B ill C-51 - Repeal Bill C-51 to defend Canadi- | - Want to repeal ‘problematic’ - For Bill C-51 they are the ones - Repeal Bill C-51 within our first ans’ charter rights and privacy. elements of Bill C-51 and introduce | who introduced the bill and saw it | 100 days in office. new legislation that better balances | through to legislation. out collective security with our “We don’t feel that you have to gove rights and freedoms. “Bill C-51 was put in place to up your rights for security. NDP protect Canadians.” - Wai Young, | will repeal Cill C-51.” - Amandeep Conservatice candidate Nijjar, NDP candidate LSU has yet to clarify LSU declines to comment regarding the cancellation of last week’s election, leaving student candidates and voters confused with no warning or explanation By MURRAY B. HUNT ollowing last week’s cancelled Langara Students’ Union election, students and even councillor can- didates remain in the dark re- garding the reasons. Jiayi Lu, business studies student and councillor candidate, only discov- ered voting had been canceled mid- election last Wednesday when she in- quired at the LSU office why the ballot box in the lobby of Building A had dis- appeared. She and other candidates have yet to be officially informed of the cancella- tion. Voting had begun Oct. 5 and was due to end Oct. 8. However, on Oct. 7, the ballot box had vanished. No LSU staff was in the lobby to let students know the election had been called off. The LSU office was closed. It was only later that evening that LSU Chief Returning Officer Jeannie Bates posted on the LSU website that she had noticed “numerous irregulari- ties” and had decided to “void this elec- tion.” Lu was told by LSU front-desk staff that she would receive a letter explain- ing the details of the cancellation. How- ever, she said as of Sunday, Oct. 11, she had not received a letter, “and have no idea why the election has been can- celled.” According to LSU Association bylaw 6.7.1, the Chief Returning Officer can disqualify candidates who violate the electoral rules and regulations. Writ- ten notice would be provided to the dis- qualified candidate, who would have 72 hours to appeal the decision. At this week’s press time, neither the Chief Returning Officer nor the LSU had released any information on why election was cancelled entirely, or what the “irregularities” were. Yangchun Ye, another business stu- dent running for councillor, had not heard from the Chief Returning Officer. “Why have they not contacted me?” she said. “I have been disqualified and have yet to receive a letter. Did I do something wrong? Why don’t the LSU talk to me and the students of Langa- ra?” According to the British Columbia Society Act — the legislation governing more than 27,000 non-profit legal enti- ties in B.C. — the current board mem- bers remain as directors in such a situ- ation. A senior advisor representing the Act told The Voice while the B.C. Soci- ety Act won’t investigate, dues-paying students have the right to know why the election was voided. He also said members have the right to ask the LSU when the next election will take place. “T hope that they will let me know if! can run again to be a councillor,” said Lu. “It is not right that they don’t tell people what happened.” 66 That answer explains lot about why people hate politicians. If bullshit were gold, we’d all be rich CHARLES BOYLAN VANCOUVER SOUTH MARXIST-LENINST CANDIDATE In response to Conservative candidate Wai Young's speech on exempting seniors from tax rules On Monday, October 19, there |S something you can do to: ~ Eliminate Tuition Fees and Forgive Student Loans _| Legislate an End to Bill C-51, C-24 and the TPP ~ Arrest Pipeline Expansion and Corporate Polluters ~ Institute an Income Guarantee and End Poverty L| Nationalize Respect for Democracy in Parliament Canada needs a New Government. Please vote, and please vote Green! eae ELAI N NG Approved by the official agent for Elain Ng — Vancouver South On Monday, October 19, please vote Green Party because: /¥ We want to be Working for You, Listening to You and Helping You. Green MPs represent you. We Work for the best interest of Our Riding, NOT along party lines and dubious agendas. ” ¥ Economy and Environmental Protection must work Together. Canada must shift from subsidized resource dependent extraction to be broader and more balanced. Clean Energy is the Future ¥ Support Small Businesses, National Housing and Childcare Programs to Address Growing Inequality and Local Affordability. Approved by the official agent for Wes Regan — Vancouver East. Wes Regan