The provincial election can’t come soon enough for one voter
By Lethbridge Herald on April 15, 2023.
Editor:
On January 2, 2021 Donald Trump made the infamous call to State of Georgia Secretary of State Mr. Raffensperger to find him some votes and he explained that there was nothing wrong with the call, in fact according to Trump it was a “perfect call.”
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith talks to a preacher by the name of Pawloski about his upcoming criminal charges and claims that there was nothing wrong with the call. There appears to be a striking similarity about the two calls and the mindset of both Trump and Smith.
Then there is Kaycee Nadu who was a cabinet minister in Premier Kenney’s government.
He received a $300 traffic ticket and he promptly called the Edmonton Chief of Police about it.
He saw nothing wrong with it even though he is a lawyer.
Our current Premier promptly makes him Deputy Premier and he now says there was nothing wrong with the call between the Premier and pastor Pawlsoki.
All I can say is that it is just unbelievable that we have this bunch running the province.
The election can’t come soon enough.
Barney Feenstra
Lethbridge
12-11
Yeh, and the Biden’s run free and you compare the UCP toTrump. And you have never misspoke or made a mistake in your life, you/re perfect. Lol. More gobblygook and old news.
Poor Buckwhiner…putting out fires everywhere..except the one on his head. lol.
appreciate your enthusiasm, but as every election in our land consistently demonstrates, we simply toss out a team after they have shown us how not to govern, only to replace them with the other team that had already shown us how not to govern…and repeat the process. our system needs a significant overhaul, and casting a vote for any party is not proving to be the answer. x-out the entire ballot, and stop legitimising an illegitimate system.
I agree in theory, but in practice without a substantial movement behind you, you’re just wasting a vote. Politics is always going to be picking the least objectionable candidate, and even if the better candidate wins, it’s a starting point, nothing more. Political advocacy doesn’t end when your team wins.
Once Canadians take cues from France and protest in a way that’s hard to ignore, then throwing out the system is a viable answer. Until then, you can protest and speak out without wasting the little power you currently have.
i appreciate your feedback – so much more engaging and intelligent than the icon pushers 🙂 i also appreciate many of your comments throughout this forum.
to be more clear, hopefully, i am stating that continuing to cast votes in our system, we uphold and worse, legitimise the status quo. a major issue, among too many issues that have impoverished our democracy, is that our vote is actually worth less a vote. thus, we routinely return “majority” govts – to a system seriously lacking in quality checks and balances – that have garnered only a minority of the votes (as little as 38% of the popular vote is all it now takes to have a “majority”).
as well, we consistently witness graft – typically without prosecution – and consistent massive waste that too often is about pocket lining…as i stated, in casting a vote we ceremoniously replace one set of bums with the other set of bums we cast out the time before for being bums.
thus, rather than legitmise a system that has become quite illegitimate, i suggest we use the vote to say “enough.” but, i get it, canadians are too complacent – or in denial – or just stuck as being creatures of habit to protest even that much.