How to use the Candidate Questionnaire

This suggested questionnaire will help you to deliver some important messages about literacy and also to get the answers you need to make an informed decision. Also, the responses you receive will provide a permanent record that you can use, and MCL can use, to hold politicians to their word.

Here are some ways you can use the questionnaire:

• No time for a letter? Just print the backgrounder and questionnaire and fax them to the candidate’s campaign office. Make sure to provide your contact information in the spaces provided.
• Attach the complete questionnaire, or part of it, to your letter to the candidate.
• When you meet with a candidate, privately or at a public forum, give them a copy of the questionnaire along with your contact information.
• Choose one or two questions and raise them at a public forum, ie: allcandidates meeting, open radio call-in show, or at a face to face meeting that you have set up.
• After the election, send a copy of any responses you may have received from the newly elected MP to MCL.