CSU election debate: Round 2

The two teams running for the CSU Election got down to business Friday in a debate seen live on CUTV. After getting their debating jitters out Wednesday, both teams made strong points answered with a great deal of applause in the final debate of the 2011 CSU election campaign. This debate was mostly between the presidents, Khalil Haddad and Lex Gill, with small appearances from a few of their VPs.

Some students have been fed up with the tedious onslaught of campaigning, but it appears that the two teams aren’t happy about it either. If elected they want to reform the way elections are done and make it more of a dialogue between students. Again, the fact that most students don’t vote is a realistic barrier to the reach of the CSU as over 90% of students did not vote last year.

Promises were flying during this debate as both want to make serious reforms and changes to many levels of the CSU. For instance with clubs, Your Concordia has called for a clubs council, while Team Action wants to make clubs space available 24 hours a day. Lengthy platforms are available on both team’s websites.

One controversial issue that came up at this debate and was not approached in public before was the fact that Team Action has been blocking people and deleting posts on their social networking pages. Haddad defended this position by calling for more polite and respectful comments on the pages.

Media bias was left out of this debate as that controversy seems to have run its course.

To watch a stream of the debate by CUTV click here.