Hi PETER,
On , you wrote me:

 PC> Hi Michael;

 -=>> Quoting Michael Gothreau to Peter Coggon <=-

 MG>> Peter, aren't you glad you have the freedom to not vote if that
 MG>> is what you wish to not do?

 PC>   I see that 40% of the voters of Canada feel the same way.  I wonder
 PC> too how many people have been living in Canada, and have not got the
 PC> right to vote because they are not citizens, but might be British
 PC> citizenship?   Something that Canada changed some years ago, and
 PC> thus quite a few in protest did not apply to be Canadian citizens.

 PC>   Yes Michael I am glad I have freedom., But that is not an issue.
 PC> My freedom has never been taken away, nor has it been in family
 PC> recorded history.

 MG>> Are you going to be happy you did not contribute if a Liberal
 MG>> wins in your riding. or they form the next government?  

 PC>  To this day, I have no idea who won in my riding.  For the past
 PC> whatever to when I first moved here to this area, the area no matter
 PC> who wins stays the same.  I even slept great.


 MG>> Are you going to be happy if you did not help prevent that?

 PC>  Local politicians promise the sky.  They then must toe the party
 PC> line and platform and whatever they say and promise, well it bears
 PC> out no matter who wins, that it helps Bay Street.

 PC>  If I was voting, then I can accept defeat at election time, as
 PC> that is the parliamentary system.  To prevent it means I would
 PC> have to canvas too to express my views as to why that party
 PC> should not be elected or their candidate.  It is rather hard
 PC> to dislike a party and yet like their candidate.

 PC>  Bottomline.  NO.  The people of the riding have voted and
 PC> the winner has emerged, and we must work with him/her.

 PC>  This election was the worse voter turnout in history.  It will
 PC> never send a message to whomever.   What will happen is further
 PC> losses in medical care, pensions, and whatever while these MPs
 PC> hike their pay, pensions and their masters on Bay Street and
 PC> elsewhere will be busy undermining Medicare and replacing
 PC> it with more extras to be paid by the taxpayer/citizen less pension 
 PC> plan benfits when they need it at retirement and doing this while 
 PC> getting tax shelters, and being able to not pay income tax while 
 PC> their money is made elsewhere as a company exploiting citizens of 
 PC> other countrys.

 PC> Oh well ... I am but one.   But I am free!

Well, that was a great post!

No argument.

Do you feel any apathy?  [g,d&r]


From the desk of...


   Michael
... If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.
- Margaret Atwood, author, in Maclean's 3 Oct 1988



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