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Originally Posted by Slava
I've heard that over the past couple of days, but don't really know what to make of it. What should Stelmach be saying/doing here to "stand up" for us?
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Exactly, and what was the turnout at our last provincial election?
Pathetic you ask?
We had threads at this site asking if you were going to vote provincially and federally.
Read through them and see how many were willing to let the rest of us decide for them and say that was good enough for them. Well, maybe it wasn't. But for those who actually did go and vote, they gave Stelmach a HUGE majority. Ok, huge out of small voter turn out is not as big a deal as huge with a big voter turn out. Fact is though, each eligible voter had a choice to make, vote or stay home and for those who did make a choice, it was both a CLEAR and a RESOUNDING majority for Stelmach. He won fair and square and he won BIG.
Each and every Canadian has a weapon available to them, your pencil that you vote with during an election. Voting is democracy in action. If on the other hand, you choose to remain la dee dah about elections and choose not to exercise your democratic right to vote, well then, you eventually can and will end up with the current mess that we have in Canada. It is the citizens of the country that preserve democracy.
I am heartened however that Canadians as a whole do seem to be rising to the occasion here in voicing their displeasure about the current situation. We might be apathetic, but if the right circumstances present themselves, we do listen and we do act.