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Thanks Nora. Keep fighting the good fight.

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Couldn’t you have just bought yourself a ticket into the event like the rest of the delegates?

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Why couldn't I have paid $1700 to sneak in and hide the fact that I'm a journalist? Too expensive and unethical. Or should I have run for a EDA delegate pass so that the party could have paid my way?

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I can’t speak to the costs, or whether something is too expensive. But sneaking in seems unethical to me, especially when you could have just as easily paid the entrance fee.

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If you think $1700 is an easy fee to pay, lol.

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If ‘sneaking in seems unethical’ perhaps you’ll find the Situational Ethics of The CPC Party

& especially the astonishing aspects of their Creeping Evangelical Factions, embedded MainStreamMedia

& the grim reality the current Party of Poilievre & Jenni Byrne et al just a Canadian GOP Franchise fascinating

Note their adroit use of RoboPolls as ‘the News’ is now Daily Incremental Headline Influencers

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What is particularly sad about your experience is it seems virtually all political conventions are like this one. Apart from promoting the cult of the leader don't see what the point of these conventions is.

We would be better off if political parties were banned and we returned to the principles that parliament was supposedly created as

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