Rintaran Welcome to the debate everyone. I'll be your moderator for the evening.
17:40 Rintaran People with questions are encouraged to blurt them in the #debate channel. I will pick them up and pass them on to the candidates. Allotting each candidate a few moments to respond to each question
17:40 Rintaran The candidates will then have the chance to respond to each other for a limited time before we move on to the next question.
17:41 Rintaran First I would like to give the candidates 5-minutes to introduce themselves. The order has been pre-picked, at random, using a hat in my basement.
17:42 Rintaran The first candidate will be Johann. Johann, you have the floor for your opening comments.
17:43 JohannWeiss So introduction.... If we haven't communicated before, I'm Johann Weissgerber. I've been active in the party since the last general election when I was asked to help out with Travis's campaign
17:44 JohannWeiss I've always been interested in politics and philosophy.
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17:44 JohannWeiss And I guess I've thought the youth generation needed a good political movement
17:44 JohannWeiss The internet is a great place for it, so the Pirate Party seemed right
17:45 JohannWeiss I really agree with Falkvinge's work, at least what I've read of it
17:45 JohannWeiss Yeah, I don't really know what else to say. If anyone has any questions for me just ask (I guess in one of the other channels?)
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17:46 Rintaran Alright. Thank-you Johann. Shawn Vulliez, you're next.
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17:48 svulliez Hello, I've been involved since around the time there was internal debate about whether or not to support WikiLeaks (I was outspokenly pro-wikileaks, whistleblowers, journalism) and I was elected to a Director-At-Large position in the last by-election.
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17:49 svulliez I too follow falkvinge and generally agree with his viewpoints. I've appeared in the media a few times for the party recently and during Election 41.
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17:50 svulliez I feel as though I've been a bit "ahead of the curve"- suggesting things long before the rest of the council comes to agree with me. It's been frustrating but also immensely satisfying to be involved with the party, and I look forward to continuing.
17:50 svulliez I was also an organizer/facilitator at Occupy Winnipeg and I've brought a lot of new support to the party since getting involved.
17:50 svulliez I'll cut myself off here.
17:51 Rintaran Thank-you Shawn. Finally, James Wilson, could you please introduce yourself?
17:51 Wilson My name is James Wilson and I joined the party during the last election. What interested me most was the committment to open government and to allowing candidates a greater measure of freedom. As I 've read up on IP issues I've also come to value the party's stance on looser IP law.
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17:53 Wilson I've been active on the forums but with the delay of the leadership vote I have become more active finding volunteers for the party and doing things myself rather then waiting for others. Currently I'm in the process of getting confirmation from MP C. Angus whether the C-11 petition is written well enough to be presented to the House.
17:55 Wilson I've advocated the party having a more aggressive stance to sending out press releases, basically every thing that could be called a newspaper. Especially student newspapers where I feel we can pick up alot of support.
17:55 Rintaran Thank-you James. Travis McCrea, could you please take 5 minutes to introduce yourself.
17:57 TravisMcCrea|Work Okay, well I am Travis McCrea from Vancouver, BC. I am the owner of TorMovies and TUEBL I also am in an ongoing campaign to acquire websites that are running fully legal operations who the owners feel pressured to close them down, and taking responsibility for them to keep the websites open (as I did with TUEBL and TorMovies).
17:59 TravisMcCrea|Work I ran for parliament in the last elections, I didn't come in last place and many people approached me telling me that I was a great speaker and that the only reason they were not going to vote for me was because they already had their party decided. I was told that there would be a seat for me to run for by both the Green Party and the NDP if I would join their parties. I have remained a Pirate be
17:59 TravisMcCrea|Work cause I genuinely believe that we have unique platforms and that we can be a strong force in Canadian politics if we treat our roll seriously.
18:00 Rintaran And that concludes our introductions. Absent this evening are Patrick Fitzgerald, Steve Henderson, Jake Daynes, Andrii Zvorygin, and latecomer Christoph Leon.
18:00 TravisMcCrea|Work I have been a pirate for a long time, and I am an active blogger on Falkvinge.net who is a direct mentor of mine and the founder of the Pirate Party movement
18:01 Rintaran For those just tuning in. Please ask your questions in #debate. I will be picking them up and referring them to the candidates. Each candidate will have two minutes to present their view.
18:01 Rintaran Following all candidates presentation, the candidates will then be given 1-minute rebuttals to their fellows stances, should they choose to use it.
18:02 JohannWeiss I don't have any rebuttal
18:02 Rintaran The first question comes to us from handler, who asks "What is going to be done with the PiratePartyCanada reddit?" Feel free to expand your response to all of the PPCA's social media as it applies to the same question.
18:03 Rintaran We'll begin this round with Shawn Vulliez.
18:03 svulliez I think that we should set strict standards for use within a community of volunteers, and involve as many social media outlets as possible.
18:04 svulliez I'm personally leaning towards having no anonymous personal opinions posted from the name "pirate party", and focus more on providing relevant links and information.
18:05 svulliez I think I have a few novel ideas on how to follow through on social media and make it engaging and non-offensive, but it's going to require more collaborative discussion.
18:06 svulliez Engaging the people who are doing to social media posting to build their own standards collaboratively is going to be a good thing.
18:06 Rintaran Thank-you Shawn, I'm afraid that's your two minutes. James Wilson, you're next on the digital podium.
18:06 Wilson Confession: I rarely use reddit but I do feel it is important for reaching a wider audience(just as our Facebook is) Handled well it will increase our visability, handled poorly it can do real harm.