Sam’s Soapbox #5 – My Political Christmas Wishlist
This year, rather than wish for world peace, I decided to try something a little more tangible.
Here are 5 simple things Canada should do to make government work better and get people excited about politics…
I like the beginning!
The 10% mail out, though I agree is not a very good use of our tax dollars, and not really the most effective way of reaching voters, I don’t think is as bad as you make it seem. Sure they made sweeping generalizations of the two parties, but that’s the way politics works, it’s rhetoric.
I also disagree with online voting. Though I think everything you said about it is true, I’m old fashioned, I think actually putting an X beside the candidate is cool, I don’t want to lose that.
Good point about question period though. I don’t know if a format change would necessarily work, but either way, the people running our country shouldn’t be acting the way they are.
Good points, Paula. About the online voting, though, I certainly would not want to abolish the current voting system… just have online voting as a parallel alternative. Think of the uproar we’d hear from rural Canada and people that don’t own computers if they were forced to vote online!
Nice piece as usual! opinionated without going over the line that would cost you a co-op placement with CIDA! Didn’t know about the 10% thing just the other 4… so that’s 20% I didn’t know about. Or is it 10% I didn’t knwo about? Sorry guess I’m just rabblerousing and not leaving time for opinions like in Question Period. Off now to compete in the 100 yard dash for people with no sense of direction. Carry on!