I cannot see a way to acknowledge David Maybury’s essay on his post so I hope he sees my comment here about how much I enjoyed and appreciated reading of his experience and esp hearing the truckers didn’t honk after 6 pm. So many believe they were disturbing residents all night.. thanks for another excellent post Donna..
WOW - not since Christine Anderson’s denouncement of Trudeau at the European Parliament last year have I be so encouraged by David’s honest and accurate letter. I read a good number of the comments he received but the one from Bill Gardener has me upset - he ended by saying we should all leave Ottawa and settle our concerns via the next election. I live in Oxford and as one of four ridings had a chance to do just that and the results have left me disgusted and discouraged! In the 2021 election, the received 5,542,360 votes - 32% - which earned them 159 seats (47%) - 34,858 votes per seat earned. The People’s Party of Canada earned 842,969 votes and received zero seats with 5 % of the total votes - at the 34,858 per liberal seat rate that should have earned them 24 Seats! - SOME DEMOCRACY EH??? Fast forward to Monday June 2023 my ex MP David MacKenzie a Concervative who held my riding for 17 years (who didn’t once visit the convoy in Ottawa) resigned and forced a bi-election in which he endorsed the Liberal Candidate!!! - This election the PPC in my riding received only 1,248 votes (18.8 % of previous election) - the Conservatives received 16,144 votes (down from previous 29,034) - the NDP received 3,931 votes (down from 11,231 votes) - but get this -- the Liberal party received 13,574 votes - up from 12,231 votes in 2021 - an increase of 1,011 votes or 8 % higher). Meanwhile in Portage - Lisgar Manitoba where Maxine Bernier (4 th election to regain a seat in Canada’s Parliament), came in Second with 5,349 votes behind the Conservative’s 20,215 votes. Does anyone else beside me and a few others not realize how bad things have gotten in Canada over the past 8 years? Do we not realize that these days are the beginning of the end of days - that the next election will either make or break this country? This 79 year old RABID CANADIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER believes we are doomed and I believe when I take my last breath I will be regretting what my children and grandchildren will be facing and I’ll no longer be astound to try to protect their future!!!
I cannot see a way to acknowledge David Maybury’s essay on his post so I hope he sees my comment here about how much I enjoyed and appreciated reading of his experience and esp hearing the truckers didn’t honk after 6 pm. So many believe they were disturbing residents all night.. thanks for another excellent post Donna..
WOW - not since Christine Anderson’s denouncement of Trudeau at the European Parliament last year have I be so encouraged by David’s honest and accurate letter. I read a good number of the comments he received but the one from Bill Gardener has me upset - he ended by saying we should all leave Ottawa and settle our concerns via the next election. I live in Oxford and as one of four ridings had a chance to do just that and the results have left me disgusted and discouraged! In the 2021 election, the received 5,542,360 votes - 32% - which earned them 159 seats (47%) - 34,858 votes per seat earned. The People’s Party of Canada earned 842,969 votes and received zero seats with 5 % of the total votes - at the 34,858 per liberal seat rate that should have earned them 24 Seats! - SOME DEMOCRACY EH??? Fast forward to Monday June 2023 my ex MP David MacKenzie a Concervative who held my riding for 17 years (who didn’t once visit the convoy in Ottawa) resigned and forced a bi-election in which he endorsed the Liberal Candidate!!! - This election the PPC in my riding received only 1,248 votes (18.8 % of previous election) - the Conservatives received 16,144 votes (down from previous 29,034) - the NDP received 3,931 votes (down from 11,231 votes) - but get this -- the Liberal party received 13,574 votes - up from 12,231 votes in 2021 - an increase of 1,011 votes or 8 % higher). Meanwhile in Portage - Lisgar Manitoba where Maxine Bernier (4 th election to regain a seat in Canada’s Parliament), came in Second with 5,349 votes behind the Conservative’s 20,215 votes. Does anyone else beside me and a few others not realize how bad things have gotten in Canada over the past 8 years? Do we not realize that these days are the beginning of the end of days - that the next election will either make or break this country? This 79 year old RABID CANADIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER believes we are doomed and I believe when I take my last breath I will be regretting what my children and grandchildren will be facing and I’ll no longer be astound to try to protect their future!!!