{"id":13984,"date":"2017-05-08T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=13984"},"modified":"2017-05-10T15:16:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T22:16:27","slug":"camosun-students-divided-as-provincial-election-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/05\/08\/camosun-students-divided-as-provincial-election-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun students divided as provincial election approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students at Camosun College have varying opinions over which candidate to cast their ballot for in the upcoming BC provincial elections. About a third of the people Nexus<\/em> spoke to on a recent May morning said they supported the Green Party, a third said they supported the NDP, and another third said they were undecided.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m thinking it\u2019s probably the end of the BC Liberals, is what I\u2019m seeing,\u201d says first-year Nursing student and NDP supporter Linus Scott. \u201cI don\u2019t know a whole lot about the candidates, but I would love to see some more stuff for students and a higher minimum wage, and I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s the NDP party that\u2019s looking for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Lansdowne campus of Camosun College (file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Third-year Environmental Technology student Pascale Archibald is a Green Party supporter (and former Nexus<\/em> student editor); \u201cI\u2019m feeling pretty good about it,\u201d she says. \u201cI haven\u2019t actually looked at all the platforms but I have a party that I want to vote for\u2014the Green Party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students like Scott and Archibald seem to have their minds made up on who they\u2019re voting for come May 9, while other students haven\u2019t quite made a decision yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m feeling a little apprehensive, I would say,\u201d says third-year English student Alice Stewart, who wasn’t quite sure who she would be voting for. \u201cIt seems like everyone I talk to has a different view on every single party and I\u2019m not really quite sure who to choose. I\u2019m planning on voting, but I\u2019m not decided yet. My mom tells me horror stories of when the NDP were in power, so that makes me a bit apprehensive, but sometimes I feel like they have some good points, so it\u2019s a little confusing. I feel like the candidates in our area are fairly strong, and very, \u2018This is what I\u2019m doing, this is who I am.\u2019 I feel like it gets more convoluted as you go higher up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Second-year Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology student and Green Party supporter Alex Carter Johnson says he is \u201cpretty excited to see what Victoria has to say in the fight between environment versus economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m planning on voting for Andrew Weaver of the Green Party,\u201d says Johnson. \u201cThe other candidates have interesting viewpoints but I really feel like a more green approach needs to be taken, especially considering the rate of which climate change is happening within our world and here on Vancouver Island.\u201d<\/p>\n

First-year computer engineering student and NDP supporter Sunny Hundal feels that Clark has been in power too long and that it may be time to change the guard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m about 70 percent sure who I will be voting for,\u201d says Hundal. \u201cI like John Horgan, don\u2019t really like Christy Clark much, so you can probably guess who I\u2019ll be voting for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students at Camosun College have varying opinions over which candidate to cast their ballot for in the upcoming BC provincial elections. About a third of the people Nexus spoke to on a recent May morning said they supported the Green Party, a third said they supported the NDP, and another third said they were undecided. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13985,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions\/13985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}