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Originally Posted by BACKCHECK!!!
BACKCHECK!!!: "Write a letter to your MLA, MP, Environment Minister, party leaders, etc. These are the people who decide what mining companies are and are not allowed to do, and they will set whatever policy will get them votes. Postage is free to sitting members, and you can often talk to MPs and MLAs on the phone. These mechanisms are in place explicitly to give people like you direct influence on policy makers for exactly this kind of situation."
OP: "I think I'll write a letter to the NHL. They'll do something about this."
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I don't think I'm wrong in thinking that corporations have plenty of influence, perhaps even more in the short term than governments. The NHL is a big enterprise with an image to maintain, they might care.
I didn't say I wasn't going to write my MLA. I know how the provincial and federal government system works. My MLA (Herbert) and my MP (Fry) are opposition members who are already grilling the government for a full independent investigation and doing whatever they can to get results. Just because I don't specifically say something doesn't make me ignorant to it.
In fact, in a moment like this, my MLA and my MP know what to do. I voted for them, I elected them to do just that.
I think spreading my concern to where my money is spent is a logical next step. You see a lot of companies change their affiliations when public pressure put on them. Corporations have to be responsible four quarters every year. Politicians only feel the pressure once every leap year.
I don't understand some peoples need to water me down and oversimplify everything I say, and act like just because we have differing opinions I must be some kind of idiot, or even worse, an oilers fan.