We will kick off the Agenda's election night coverage on Thursday at 8 p.m., one hour before the polls close, with a look back at how "the Citizen's Agenda" played out during the campaign.
What is "the Citizen's Agenda?" It's a process TVO undertook over the past eight months by visiting five locations across Ontario to get a sense of what issues citizens felt mattered most.
It involved holding a day-long event in each location. At the event, interested and engaged citizens came together to debate and discuss what issues our elected representatives most needed to address. At the end of the day, participants voted on which of the issues identified they felt were most important.
The top issues identified at each event became the focus of a live broadcast held in the same community the following day. Representatives of the major parties appeared on the program to respond to citizens' concerns and questions.
The five places we went to were: Ottawa, Hamilton, Niagara, Sudbury and Mississauga. After our last stop in Mississauga earlier this week, four issues emerged as the most discussed over the course of our five visits:
--Social Services
--Governance
--Energy
--Health Care
There were of course many other issues that people brought up, though these four were by far the most talked about.
You can see a visual representation of which issues came up and how citizen participants voted on them at the first four AgendaCamps here. You can see the four programs that came out of those AgendaCamps via the same link.
Here are the results of our latest AgendaCamp in Mississauga:
And here is the video of the program that came out of our Mississauga AgendaCamp:
You can also check out this playlist, featuring highlights of what the party representatives at our Agenda on the Road programs had to say about various key issues raised by our citizen participants at our AgendaCamps.
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