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The Institute On Governance and Apt613 are doing their part to promote greater dialogue between candidates and young Ottawans by organizing a mayoral candidates’ debate, set to take place on Tuesday, October 5th at the National Arts Centre’s Fourth Stage. [Note: The debate was originally scheduled for Sunday, September 12 and is now being rescheduled for Tuesday, October 5 at 9pm.] A collaboration between the Institute On Governance, Apt613, the National Arts Centre and RogersTV, the debate will be a live, in-person and bilingual event. If you can’t make it in person, the action will be televised on Channel 22 and streamed live on the web.
The discussion will feature current mayor Larry O’Brien and candidates Alex Cullen, Jim Watson and Clive Doucet. The format of our debate - a televised, 90 minute event with multiple platforms for questions - and our desire to give time for substantive answers led us to invite a limited number of candidates to the event.
The two themes that will run throughout the debate are youth and social media. In fact, from now until October 5th we’ll be soliciting questions from you via multiple Web 2.0 platforms:
1. Twitter - At any time, Tweet your question using the hashtag #ott2010. We’ll be pulling questions directly from Twitter during the debate.
2. YouTube - Record yourself and upload your questions on our YouTube group.
We’re defining ‘youth’ rather broadly and hope that folks from first time voters to young professionals will attend and engage with the candidates. Even if you’re just young at heart, please feel free to record your question.