Thank you Jilles, Danny and Jack!

[Mr.Canada]

Good plan...an equal opportunity critic. Yes, Vancouver Kingsway is my riding and it is a great relief to have a parliamentary presence that reflects the views of a majority here after 2 years + of a spineless, couldn't-care-less neo-conservative MP.

Harper's politics are alien here ... finally we have a representative that actually represents.

From the outside looking in? Not smart. You're candidate is a lame duck with no popwer to do anything.

Have fun.

[madmax]

From the outside looking in? Not smart. You're candidate is a lame duck with no popwer to do anything.

Have fun.

What I find deeply disturbing with your comment is that you discount the entire political process. You have this false belief that unless you have a CPC rep, you are a lame duck. I can assure you, that I have seen many majority governments, and their is ample ammunition to prove Lame Duck MPs and MPPs who sit on the backbenches of government chicken nodding and woken up when its time to vote. Often the ridings that are ignored are ones that are safe and secure.

Most government policies already exist in the bureaucracy, and it is just a matter of having the wits to go after what is required for your riding if it isn't in the cards. I tend to find the MP or MPP finds out what is happening then shows up for the ribbon cutting or certificates being handed out.

Often the threat of election and gaining or losing a seat is in the deck, then this is enough to make a government start coughing up money indescriminately and without sound fiscal policy. We saw Harper do this in this election. I have seen Paul Martin do it.

There is alot of CPC deadwood representing some ridings. Its just a fact. There is alot of LPC deadwood, but not nearly as much as their used to be , and every NDP seat is up for grabs, regardless of the calibre of candidate.

I personally felt that Emerson had no courage. Because he was weak, he did not have the strength to defend his actions. If you look at the CPC numbers, you have to think, how good would they have done with an incumbent, with a track record? Perhaps better, perhaps worse.

But you need to provide the data that Emerson, a floor crossing cabinet minister and a high profile one at that, provided anything of substance during his term to Vancouver Kingsway?

A person who steps down after 2 years, isn't up to the job. There seems to be little doubt that the people of Vancouver Kingsway made an educated and well informed decision.

Perhaps it is easy for outsiders, such as you and me to judge their decision, but we don't live there.

The people made a choice between an NDP representative and LPC and CPC backbenchers.

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