First of all, thank you for continuing to read past the title. I promise, I won’t talk about how important it is to vote.

When the campaign period for this year’s SCSU executive election began, I was ridiculously bored with the limited options offered to students. It looked like the most boring election in my four years at UTSC. Though it’s no fault of candidates who are running, I think it’s a sad day for student politics when we only have one presidential candidate.

Initially, because of sheer visibility, it looked like the “Forward Together” slate was going to make a clean sweep (By the way, isn’t this the Liberal Party’s slogan?). But as the campaign period progressed, I think other candidates came into their own, making for the kind of competition that a student union election should have.

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