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Fringe Party

A few years ago, I was interviewed for a movie about the smaller political parties in Canada. The movie
was called 'Fringe Party'. The movie was shown at a couple of film festivals, but I did not hear much about it. It was made available about six years ago now. The text and links below are a cut and paste from an old Facebook post I made. The person who interviewed me for this was personable, friendly, and fair. He pitched what I felt were softball questions designed to generally get my opinion. I'm thankful that I and others were given a small voice. Note: This is mostly here as a reference for myself. It was not all that long ago, but I look much older now. It's nice to see the younger man here.
FRINGE PARTY - An Inside Look at Political Outsiders (Documentary)

Bob Trower
For people interested, here are the few small clips with me in them:
One of the challenges that small parties face is financing. I actually did a review of the finances involved in a federal election and found that usually the person who spent the most money got elected and if they didn't, a close runner-up who spent only a bit less won. The stakes have gone up, but at the time, it only took about $100K to win a seat in parliament: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vu3rNQNJv1Y?start=1304...
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Bob Trower
One of the issues that concerns me is that our elections are somewhat farcical in that all the big party candidates have more in common with each other than they do you and I: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vu3rNQNJv1Y?start=1655...
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At the time this was being filmed, most of the small parties and a majority of the big parties felt that the incumbent Prime Minister (Harper), just had to go. I think that I expressed the majority opinion well here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vu3rNQNJv1Y?start=1705...
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