Visiting the Political Quagmire Riding by Riding

[Scallywag]

Picking a party based on media celebrities designed and managed for ridings thousands of kilometers away is like picking a bride – also created thousands of kilometers away – from the Internet. It’s crazy!

The best representation for every riding is a problem-solver already living in and contributing to the riding. That person would know the people, the problems, and could understand arising situations better than one chosen to represent a party to the riding. Such an MP would, through local consultation, solve problems through knowledge and experience, not cut-and-paste textbook solutions. There would be no fail-safe position (the party made me do it) for anyone not following through as agreed.

Canadians need to act now to replace the modern equivalent of town-criers with a proper, well-informed, well-intended representative. Independents could cooperate without a party structure or a whip. While their voice may be small to start, at least it wouldn’t always be in compliance with the party powerful.

[myata]

That would be a near-impossible feat of resisting temptation: imagine, close to 200K salary plus committee, ministerial etc other juicy jobs handed out by party administrations with very nice, or should we say see the defections, impossible to resist entitlement packages? My personal opinion is that the system is way past the point of no return, that is, connection to the reality of the country. But good luck, maybe better than nothing.

Cutting the line to the bottomless cash well could be more effective but it would have to be approved by the same ones feeding from it, so good luck to us citizens. The price of a good centennial sleep under the lullaby muzak of "best country" and "rising prosperity".

Edited July 26, 2021 by myata