Goal: understand the various political platforms presented in this election and our riding
Part 1: meet with your group members and figure out how best to divid and conquer, the following links will help you to get the information. Work together to synthesize and understand the information.
Part 2: Prepare a quick presentation on your groups platform.
Part 3: present!
Pollenize
Pollenize Canada 2021 is an online tool that outlines the platform promises made by the major parties on 13 different election issues. Make sure that you click on the “Show Mores” to see all the proposed policies for each issue (in some cases there are a dozen).
Other party platform tools
You may wish to consider using the platform summaries created by different media sources to support your analysis of the parties. Examples include:
- Maclean’s: 2021 Election Platform Guide
- CBC News: How do the main parties compare on these issues?
- CTV News: Where do the parties stand?
- Toronto Star: Promise Tracker
- Vancouver Sun: 12 hot topics and where each party stands
Party Leader Q&As
Lastly, we wanted to remind you to take advantage of the Party Leader Q&A videos, which offer a quick and easy way to compare each party’s priorities: https://studentvote.ca/canada/leaders/
