Hoping democracy is a Canadian value
Editor:
The campaign for the Conservative leadership has created considerable interest in Canadian values.
Probably a good thing because they are important and many tend to take them for granted.
If there was a list of Canadian values I am not sure what would be on it. I would however hope that democracy would be on the list.
Put simply, this is a system whereby people running for public office freely state their own views.
On Election Day those who choose to vote do so for the candidate who they feel most closely represents their views.
Traditionally those who feel strongly and have the energy and time may campaign on behalf of their favourite candidate.
A new approach seems to be developing. That is one of campaigning against those who freely express controversial policies with which they might not agree.
As mentioned, I don’t know what would be on a list of Canadian values, if such a list existed.
Nevertheless, whenever I think about it I keep thinking of the Montreal couple who, unhappy with the views of their three teenage daughters, put them in a car and pushed it into the Rideau Canal in Kingston.
Jim Clarke,
Mansfield.
There was a time when political platforms were rock solid and politicians had integrity, and you knew exactly what you voted for….not any more. Vote whores is the best way to describe many of the politicians these days, and that has resulted in the mismanaged sex-ed program, sex change surgery takes priority over regular health care, the miss-managed electricity portfolio, giving free electricity to US states, the miss-managed finances, $300 billion debt racked up with nothing to explain it, , extra taxes in the name of climate change collected and the money given to other countries for the nebulous objective of fighting climate change. You ask questions in parliament but you don’t get answers…you get smirks from the smiling idiots.