There may be no better time than an election to consider the values on which we wish to structure our communities. The article below provides a timely and relevant think-piece given the introduction of current national “populist” views by some candidates in the 2022 race for seats on Nanaimo City Council. Perhaps now more than ever, it is prudent to get past the surface rhetoric and think of underlying principles and consequences of the platforms being espoused. Hopefully, this recent column in The Line will assist Nanaimo voters in doing that for every candidate regardless of their perspective. To restate the obvious truism: we always wind up with the communities we deserve.
Colin Horgan: The new CPC leader speaks in the language of societal decline. The Line. September 13, 2022. “As much as his critics want to believe it, Poilievre doesn’t sound like a far-right Telegram channel. He sounds like something else.”
September 13, 2022 at 2:40 pm
I think Canada has a long history of accumulated evidence that clearly shows us our Provincial & Federal political systems no longer work (if in fact they ever did).
I think in light of all this evidence, it’s time we change the way we vote.
Now, I don’t know what that new system would look like (that’s way above my pay grade) but the way we do it now clearly isn’t working and it hasn’t for a long time now!!! It seems we vote out instead of vote in because our choices of quality candidates are limited.
It appears our current government system encourages those folks who crave absolute power to seek that power in any way possible which ultimately includes making promises just to get elected. And just like the article states, without accountability and consequences, except possibly at the polls next election, there is no real downside to being dishonest. Although Trudeau seems to have taken a slightly different approach by actually apologizing when he has done something wrong, that doesn’t quite cut it because without immediate consequences, he simply does what he wants knowing he can always apologize for it afterward, groan! No wonder people are becoming more untrusting of our governments.