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NDP Toronto Danforth Candidate
January 9, 2012 - 11:40pm
Can anyone fill me in on Craig Scott, the winner of the NDP Toronto Danforth riding nomination process?
They have this new thing on the Internet called Google.
http://craigscottndp.ca/
Law professor, human rights activist. Recieved praise from Alex Neve of Amnesty International. Sounds like a fantastic candidate to me
RE:
I think that I half remember during QP the NDP talking about charging Canadian companies for breaking laws even if the crime did not take place in Canada. For example, breaking environmental law or hiring someone to murder a union leader.
Including two comments from Chris Tindal, Green Party stalwart (but less partisan than before?):
By the way, how many members voted? I see a photo that looks like a packed hall.
By chance, he wouldn't happen to be related to Reid Scott, former NDP M.P. for Danforth 1962-1968, would he?
Thanks for posting - great to see pictures of nomination mtg and Olivia rocking the house!
Chris Tindal has never been very partisan.
On top of which, there is little going on the ground in the GPC.
I'm not sure about that, Wilf. I noticed Tindal taking a few gentle jabs here and there during his coverage. But it was amusing, not mean-spirited, and actually, I thought his coverage was pretty good overall. I also liked that he gave credit where credit was due.
"By any standard of NDP drinking games, I'd have alcohol poisoning by now. #TorDan"
Heh. :)
ottawaobserver wrote
"They have this new thing on the Internet called Google" in response to my question "Can anyone fill me in on Craig Scott, the winner of the NDP Toronto Danforth riding nomination process?"
Perhaps I could have framed the question better by asking if anyone knew more about the candidate on a personal level that one is not likely to find on the internet in order to get a better understanding of Scott than is typically found in the "objective" media.
However, after 40 years of teaching, I have learned there is only one kind of question that is stupid - the one designed to show off one's knowledge or make the other person look stupid. Many times I have found the person who asked the most questions in my classes, initially to my surprise, got the highest marks, even sometimes when other people in the class were groaning because they thought the question was stupid. I also quickly learned that even if only one person was asking questions, there were in most cases many others who had the same question, but were afraid to ask it because of the reaction they might get. On the other hand, those who told me on the first day that they already had a great understanding of the subject rarely did well.
So I asked myself why this occurred repeatedly. The best answer I could come up with was that once people think that they fully understand something they do not try to understand more about it. So here is another "dumb" question: why the sarcasm?
Thanks to all of you who provided information on Craig Scott.
When I was a trainer during my 20 plus years in the service, I always told my students "the only dumb question is the one you don't ask". Nuff said? Good.
@jerrym: I didn't write that, but I apologize for the comment aimed at you.
It didn't read sarcastic to me. It read funny; and she answered your question with a link. If you had asked "does anyone know more about the candidate on a personal level that is not in his bio" she might have answered that too.
Only moderators get to be sarcastic. Part of the job description. Everyone else must be consistently sweet and positive.
I remember him from the Ward 27 contest. Struck me as a decent guy. for a Green (he was nice to my guy, who was running for TDSB at the time).
I'm in trouble, then.
ignore old goat because he only pretends to be a gruff old goat!
So, no one knows if there is a relationship between the two Scotts?
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1113686--q-a-with-craig-scott-jack-layton-s-successor-in-toronto-danforth
Seems like a bit of an elitist intellectual.
Thanks OnTheLeft for the article on Craig Scott. It was very informative.
Debater, it is interesting to see you using the same smear that the Conservatives used on Iggy. Maybe you would feel more at home in that party.
Second that thanks.
btw jerrym - I think that Debator was trying to pay Scott a comment.
Scott seems to be interested in crimes that Canadian companies commit outside of Canada. The NDP have been talking, in Question Period, about a law to charge Canadian companies for crimes even if the crime they committed was not committed on Canadian soil.
Still trying to figure out how to pronounce Scott's husband's name.
Craig Scott is hitting it out of the park this morning on the story about the government's about-face on recognizing same-sex marriages performed in Canada on citizens of other countries. Here he is on Twitter:
CraigScottNDP 1/3 Govt argues foreign same-sex marriage null. Harper ducks: "lawyers" and"law" responsible.Shameful. tinyurl.com/8xrn7ob #cdnpoli #ndpldr (link)
CraigScottNDP 2/3 Who decided agst #lgbt? Rare that Dept of Justice does anything w/out complete political vetting. tinyurl.com/8xrn7ob #ndpldr #cdnpoli (link)
CraigScottNDP 3/3 After this tinyurl.com/8xrn7ob will Vic Toews, John Baird et al dare appear on TV to tell LGBT youth "It gets better"? #ndpldr #cdnpoli (link)
If elected, how many out MPs would the NDP have? Five?
Then the Liberals should adore him!
The Liberals contending for their party's nomination in T-D sound distinctly UN-formidable - not that I would ever want to get over-confident.
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/01/25/liberal-nominees-vie-to-take-on-ndp-i...
No word on when the Liberal nomination is though, so maybe there is a star just waiting in the wings? (trying not to laugh)... so your right, we can not take any riding for granted and having for years been a TDer i know our ground game is good and there is a committed bunch of members in TD. We just have to work as hard to get Scott elected and i'm sure just as we are going to throw everything we have into the riding the liberals will try to to. It was an obvious huge boost for Scott to be included at the caucus meeting, he spoke well in the Star articule and thats bound to help give him some media coverage ahead of any liberal.
from my count yes... Morin (Danny, not Marie-Claude or Isabelle)), Garrisson, Davies (Libby, not Don), Toone and Scott. Nicely distributed as well, 2BC, 2PQ and 1ON (if Scott wins)
Some one is assuming that there are not-yet-out sitting MPs?
Yes, Scot spoke well.
true, but were the NDP so really no need to be in the closet :P (but who am i to rush anyone, or to gossip about it) ... its not like were the Liberals or the tories here now (right Baird)