This election is time to vote with our heads
By Lethbridge Herald on April 10, 2025.
Editor,
As we grow ever closer to our federal election, the Liberals and Conservatives are feverishly making promises that may or may not be doable. We will never know until they try but these promises are made for all Canadians. And that is the point isn’t it “for all Canadians.”
The Alberta and Saskatchewan governments are threatening unity problems if the Conservative don’t win. This is not in the best interests of Alberta, Saskatchewan or Canada.
We continue to elect Progressive Conservative the majority of the time but history tells us that the Liberals have formed government more times since Confederation (1867) than the Conservatives (Liberals 29, Conservatives 19).
So why doesn’t Alberta have more Liberal MPs in Ottawa? We have no voice when we have no or very little representation in the governing party.
The majority of the Canadian electorate are in the east, we all know but Alberta must stop shooting itself in the foot and get into the game, as it were!
We have yet to benefit from electing a majority of Progressive Conservative MPs to represent Alberta. We can still send Conservative MPs but we need far more than three Liberals in the event the Liberals win a majority government in 2025.
Let’s vote with our heads and not our hearts!
Kent Perry
Lethbridge
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Mr. Perry, I trust you realize that the low percentage of Citizens who actually vote represents the trend in the constituencies and not solely on the Party but the Candidate representing.
However, not knowing your domicile, here in Lethbridge the Liberals have chosen a most least likely Candidate in the person of Chris Spearman to represent their party. Ergo, voters in Lethbridge will vote with their heads, heart and souls for duly respected Conservative Candidate, Rachael Thomas.
Speak for yourself.
..and maybe get yourself into a hobby.
“Duly respected” – by whom exactly? Perhaps you and (obviously) a large number of the electorate, all the while ignoring her stance on Conversion Therapy , constantly complaining and pointing fingers without a clearly defined end point, defunding the CBC, negativity toward climate change initiatives. Like her leader PP, all she knows is straining on the leash as would an attack dog – In line with the likes of Preston Manning , still advocating and fanning the flames of western alienation.
“Duly respected” obviously by the huge majority of the voters who have elected her time and time again. By the way, BigBrit, that is called “Democracy”
Nobody has said it was not a “democracy” , although the first – past – the – post is not exactly a true reflection of the popular vote in many instances. Sure, she has (as I stated) received the largest number of voters who would support her decidedly right wing MAGA like philosophy and constant snapping at the opposition. That view does not translate to the population base across Canada, where a less extreme and more compassionate thinking exists.
Do you mean these mindless idiots who don’t know the difference between a true conservative and a reformer trying to pretend he is one like the former conservative mlas , our heroes, taught us not to support?
You do know that it’s a true fact that seniors have a horrible reputation for being easy to fool and easy to trick and con- artists and politicians have been doing it for years and it’s seniors who are the major supporters of political parties, don’t you?
Our senior friends who work the polling stations have been telling us for years that it’s naive seniors who are keeping these Reformers in power, too dumb to kick them out, while they destroy this province financially, and our children and grandchildren’s future.
I am accepting of differences of opinion, but they should be the subject of good-faith, respectful conversations. That’s why declarative statements untethered from easily accessible facts get up my gob.
Rachel Thomas has been elected three times, in 2015, 2019 and 2021, not what one would call “time and time again.” In those three elections she captured, respectively, 55.0%, 65.8% and 56.8% of the popular vote. Those are majorities, obviously, but hardly “huge majorities.” And while she gained in 2019 over 2015, her share of the popular vote declined in 2021.
I don’t know if you are misinformed, or if in your zeal for your preferred candidate you are knowingly trafficking in misinformation. Only you know the answer to that question. Perhaps it’s time for some soul searching or maybe you could seek some divine guidance.
Wow, you said it “All”. (So you undoubtedly would like to think) However consider this: Lions aren’t concerned with the opinions of sheep!
I won’t chase a non sequitur, so circling back to my comment that you lied about the sizes of Thomas’ electoral victories, I respectfully suggest to revisit the Ninth Commandment.
Darn, did I miss something here? Where did I remotely state the “size of Thomas’s electoral victories”?????
Really? You’re going to go there? You said, and I quote, that Thomas is “Duly respected,” whatever that means, “by the huge (your word, my emphasis) majority of the voters who have elected her.”
Leaving aside your excruciating phraseology and your misplaced question marks (are five really necessary?) relative to your quotation marks, why would you lie about something you said in this thread?
The only explanation I can muster is that you don’t know that huge is an adjective that means enormous, extremely large, or of a great scale.
You disagree that Mrs. Rachael Thomas was elected in three consecutive elections with huge majority of votes? Where is any semblance of a “lie” that you accused me of?
I just figured this out, you’re not lying, you are simply confused. Yes Thomas did win three consecutive elections, but her percentages of the popular vote over a simple majority (50%) were, in order, 5%, 15.8%, and 5.6%. Those are not huge majorities but her margins of victory over her opponents were substantial.
You’re confusing majorities with margins.
I apologize for accusing you of lying, you’re just confused.
You absolutely said that I lied, thank you for admitting that you were totally wrong.
I do realize it would be out of character for you, but a more gracious response would be: Thank you, I accept your apology.
Now, that said, I was being kind and giving you the benefit of the doubt when I suggested you confused a majority and a margin of victory. What I didn’t say, but will now, is only a stupid or poorly educated person would not understand the difference between those two words.
Which are you?
This Red Neck Has No Neck (neither a brain I might add), Call Mrs. Thomas’s three time election victories (soon to be fourth) a “margin of victory and/or a majority”. The facts are that she knocked it out of the park each time. By the way, I am definitely not “confused” and not ignorant of the ninth Commandment, and your excuse(s)?
might there be a conversion therapy that would help those that can only ever vote for anything and everything that calls itself a conservative?
Simple, some Albertans are just not bought off by liberal rhetoric and fake promises. Enough to not elect Liberals.
I feel like Will Ferrell in Zoolander when he yells “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!” How have so many people completely forgot what the Liberals have done to Canada the last 10 years? It’s honestly insane. One person has changed, one, and he has been heavily involved behind the scenes the previous five years. His closest people are all former Trudeau people and his personal beliefs are all very similar to all of Liberal elites. All he has promised is more spending, higher deficits, higher debt and higher interest payments, and like the previous Liberal government there won’t be anything to show for it because a bigger bureaucracy actually doesn’t produce anything of value. Can you imagine the gong show a Federal Government General Contractor will produce? Carney is obviously smarter than Trudeau but which Liberal MP deserves to be reelected? I can’t think of one. I don’t know if Poilievre will be any better honestly but I just can’t reward the Liberals for their behaviour and choices the last ten years.
I feel the same way…mind boggling the support for the same government that has literally done nothing but harm for the last decade – unchecked immigration that has affected our schools, housing, and healthcare, unchecked spending and corruption/scandals, traitor MPs still sitting in parliament, letting criminals essentially walk free, taxed beyond our means, drug crisis, the list seems endless. I’m personally knocking on my neighbors doors with liberal signs in their yards to try and talk common sense to them.
Stay off of my lawn!
now that is a oxymoron – pushing pierre is hardly talking sense.
All the conservatives I know aren’t going to support him which is a huge surprise. I just came back from B.C. and my conservative relatives aren’t either. As some are saying “I only vote Conservative and there is nothing Conservative about Poilievre so I won’t support him I will make certain he isn’t elected “.
rablah89 and James 123 it really is fun watching you guys make fools of yourselves. As much as I was never a fan of Trudeau’s I am not dumb enough to ignore what these Reformers have done to Albertans while you bad mouth Trudeau and ignore the $1.2 trillion Albertans have been screwed out of by these Reformers as our lawyer friends point out.
Why are you ignoring the fact that Trudeau poured billions of dollars into the province to save our children during the COVID Pandemic, and why are you ignoring the fact that he saved our oil industry. From talking to young Albertans and oilmen they don’t share your stupidity and while Mark Carney’s popularity continues to increase we are not surprised that it is with the stupidity Reformers Poilievre and his pal Smith have shown us, why wouldn’t it?
While newspapers around the province have been conducting surveys to see who the people are going to vote for we are seeing a switch in Alberta to Liberals over Conservatives which proves how people feel about what these Reformers have been doing to us, doesn’t it?
Show us one of your alleged “polls”!
Does anyone else wonder how many times in his life Fedup has said and written Reformers lol. I imagine him saying it like an Air Farce Preston Manning skit. Probably honestly a lot of fun at parties.
sob sob…they broke our country, criminals running around everywhere – especially in running big corporations.
pierre will fix it all…proudness will make canada great again!
I don’t know if your reading comprehension is that great but I flat out said I didn’t know if Poilievre and the Conservatives would be any better, I just can’t comprehend rewarding the Liberals for their behaviour.
you are correct – my reply is meant for james123, who echoes all the blabber points coming from pierre. i am sorry.
i agree for the most part with your summation of the libs. however, this is the ongoing issue with govts no matter what name they give their party: that is because it all becomes a party. big corp and the handful of oligarchs bestow money on the two main parties, in return for a heck of a lot of favours that hardly benefit the mass of the electorate. the elected puppets (particularly ministers) tend to end up with directorships and lobbying jobs for big corps after they leave politics, and the masses keep getting their pockets picked.
election promises are made by the parties, of which many are not kept; moreover, many controversial things get pushed through that were not given any mandate, and much of that via utterly undemocratic and shady omnibus bills that include legislation that has nothing to do one with other.
finally, an example of promises made but not kept, we still have a first past the post system that denies each voter the basic right to one person one vote.