CBBarnett
Senior Member
On that line of thinking, here's their FAQ for the question on diversity:
Very bizarre way to phrase this. Your "backgrounds" means your religion or ethnicity, exclusively. So much so they said it twice.
It's revealing on the author's world-view and not particularly relevant - if you don't know what diversity or the many dimensions it can have, just say "we want to hear from all Calgarians, everyone should bewelcome to participate in our party". Whether you actually do that is a whole other thing, but just don't show your hand and bias so easily here.
This is pretty amateur hour website and party. I bet it's a few amateur conservative activists trying to upstream and "get there first" on the more professional party efforts to come.
A weird thing seems to always happen in Alberta, and will happen in this municipal party stuff, is this trend where it's about the brand only, with no substance. It's like everyone wants power, but doesn't really have any clear objectives that they want to accomplish - winning elections is the goal, not doing anything specific with that win. This party for example, says city hall should get "back to basics" and "fiscal responsibility" but doesn't bother to say what those basics are or what city they want to build. It's just a tired regurgitation of left-right paradigm buzzwords. No substance or objectives at all.
For example - don't say "back to basics" say, we want roads without pot-holes, parks that are maintained and taxes that affordable.
Vancouver, a place with a bit more experience in parties at municipal level, is a good comparison. Here's the current ruling party landing page - hits on things like goals to make city safer, more affordable, better run etc. - it's still politicking buzzwords but at least more directly relates to city-level stuff (safer streets, lower taxes, more housing etc.): https://abcvancouver.ca/
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