Voters should demand more from politicians
By Letter to the Editor on September 30, 2019.
I am sick of this childish bickering during elections. Today’s politics and governing is like some school student council. No, that’s not right because student councils operate with more maturity than the ones we elect and make policy that impacts all our lives. I want to hear about pipelines, restoring and maintaining health care. What about our pensions and aging population? What is going to happen in a changing society with automation? Why has there never been any discussion about self-serve checkouts, self-serve order takers at fast food joints? Oh yeah, there’s been discussion how automation is taking jobs from people, but there’s never been or there’s been very minimal discussion how automation is not paying into our tax base to support our social safety net and health care. But no, we would sooner make an issue out of how someone dressed up at a costume party or how someone voted against same-sex marriage. Maybe some people are against same-sex marriage. Politics would be pretty boring if everyone had the same beliefs. We whine how the federal government caters to Quebec and Ontario like it’s something new. Can someone please inform me on any government that stuck it to Quebec other than Pierre Trudeau during the FLQ crisis? And yes, in 1970 it was the elder Trudeau that invoked the War Measures Act against the citizens of Quebec that elected him. That was one of if not was the first act of terrorism in North America. That was when we had governments that governed and maybe, just maybe it’s time we start demanding that from the people that want our support now. Instead, we let them go and bicker like the immature and privileged brats they continue to prove they are. Maybe we are getting what we have come to expect and throw up our hands in defeat, It’s time we start asking the tough questions and actually start qualifying people seeking office. I still do not know who to vote for. Maybe it will be the one with some real solutions to the problems we face and more importantly the problems we will be facing very soon. Les Landry Redcliff, Alta. 9-8
