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Back to the books Mrs. Espedido gets acquainted with her new Grade 4/5 class at Lochside Elementary on Wednesday at the start of the school year. Nearly 7,000 students within the Saanich School District returned to class this week – that’s a lot of names to remember. Jacob Zinn/News Staff

Conservative candidates skipping UVic debate Travis Paterson News Staff

Organizers of the University of Victoria Student Society’s upcoming all-candidates debate are disappointed by the lack of interest from local Conservative candidates. All 12 of the Green, Liberal and NDP candidates from the South Island ridings of Esquimalt Saanich Sooke, Cowichan Malahat Langford, Saanich Gulf Islands and Victoria have confirmed they will attend the Oct. 7 all-candidates debate in UVic’s Student Union Building. However, the UVSS had only heard

back from one Conservative, Victoria candidate John Rizzuti, who declined. A spokesperson for Robert Boyd told the Saanich News he will not attend the UVic debate as the campus is no longer in the boundaries of Saanich Gulf Islands. Instead, Boyd’s representative invited students to attend another debate within the boundaries of Saanich Gulf Islands. As of Wednesday, the UVSS hadn’t heard back from Esquimalt Saanich Sooke Conservative candidate Shari Lukens or newly nominated Conservative candidate Martin Barker in the Cowichan Malahat Langford riding. UVSS director of external relations Kenya

Rogers said they’ve gone out of their way to reach the local Conservatives. The Conservatives were also the only candidates who did not respond to a questionnaire developed by a UVSS committee for students ahead of the Oct. 7 debate, Rogers said. The UVSS has a long history of running municipal, provincial and federal election debates at UVic, and are encouraging all students to vote in the 2015 election. “We’re frustrated,” she said. “Unfortunately, when Conservatives choose to not participate in events it looks like, to them, we don’t matter. As a student society we represent a diversity of

backgrounds on campus and want to have all voices there.” The consensus on campus is that high tuition and student debt is a federal issue that students have a right to talk about with candidates, Rogers added. “We have [about] 5,000 students on campus [able to vote] for the first time. If we have parties alienating those voters in their first opportunity to be part of the democratic process it’s detrimental. We have a party that says [students] don’t matter.”

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