Funny: What NOT to say as a candidate
As an active candidate, it is your job to be prepared to answer questions with a clear and concise answer that follows the libertarian message of less government and more personal responsibility. What does that mean?
Interacting with the media can be a great opportunity to promote a libertarian message to a larger audience in your local community, however an unclear or inaccurate message can also increase the risk that you will lose control of the information you are providing to a reporter, or to other candidates during a debate.
Getting your ideas across clearly and staying on-message is a skill that can be learned and practiced. Try to remember that as you prepare yourself to be a candidate, especially if it is your first time acting in this role for the Party.
It is our job to provide you with the key ideas and messages from our platform, and to organize them in a way that will help you to answer questions from the public about the key topics that are discussed during an election. These topics, which are included in this New Candidate Guide, will cover diverse areas such as Healthcare, Education and Energy policy.
To assist active candidates in preparing for interacting with the public, in 2012 the Party held discussions at its Caucus meeting to outline some basic ideas for a complete platform document, and a first written draft was presented at our AGM in Toronto November 2012. The result of this effort is our current platform document: The Choice Book. The Party also developed an Internal Platform document, which is for candidate use only (not public). The content below will link to our internal platform whenever there is more information we can provide to help you answer media and debate questions.