The Challenge
It's been the second day without my wife and son around... I miss them terribly, which I'm know my wife loves to hear. I look forward to seeing them in a few days when I'm finished my business here in Edmonton.
It's late but I wanted to at least make some sort of entry, however irrelevant it might be. I've heard a lot of people talking about how they aren't really following the election. I can't say I blame them too much as it is Christmas and there are more important things for people to be focusing on. Even if they are the kind of folk who don't get too involved in the holiday festivities, it seems they have little desire to give too much attention to the issues of the day. It's kind of saddening but I think there's a real problem with people simply not caring. People feel like their vote is meaningless and that there's little, if anything, that they can do to affect real change. The challenge for each and every party is to restore some sense of trust in the system across Canada. Not that people are doubting the principles of democracy, but they just don't have faith in their politicians and in the process in and of itself. My personal conservative bias aside, I don't really see too much of an effort on the part of the other parties to fix the problems and irritations oft cited by the electorate today. The NDP has proposed little in the way of actual reforms, touting Ed Broadbent as some sort of political crusader from the left (just look how many times Jack Layton mentioned Mr. Broadbent in the English debates). As for the Libs, well..... I just don't trust them. You really don't have to look back too far to get a sense of how well they've been doing in terms of ethics and accountability. I think the Conservative Accountability Act has an incredible amount of potential to, if fully implemented, restore some decency to how the nation's business in Ottawa is run. Just ask yourself when you last saw such a comprehensive porposal to make government work again.
Only time will tell if the Conservatives can sell their idea to more Canadians, and more importantly, if the powers that be actually decide to listen.
It's late but I wanted to at least make some sort of entry, however irrelevant it might be. I've heard a lot of people talking about how they aren't really following the election. I can't say I blame them too much as it is Christmas and there are more important things for people to be focusing on. Even if they are the kind of folk who don't get too involved in the holiday festivities, it seems they have little desire to give too much attention to the issues of the day. It's kind of saddening but I think there's a real problem with people simply not caring. People feel like their vote is meaningless and that there's little, if anything, that they can do to affect real change. The challenge for each and every party is to restore some sense of trust in the system across Canada. Not that people are doubting the principles of democracy, but they just don't have faith in their politicians and in the process in and of itself. My personal conservative bias aside, I don't really see too much of an effort on the part of the other parties to fix the problems and irritations oft cited by the electorate today. The NDP has proposed little in the way of actual reforms, touting Ed Broadbent as some sort of political crusader from the left (just look how many times Jack Layton mentioned Mr. Broadbent in the English debates). As for the Libs, well..... I just don't trust them. You really don't have to look back too far to get a sense of how well they've been doing in terms of ethics and accountability. I think the Conservative Accountability Act has an incredible amount of potential to, if fully implemented, restore some decency to how the nation's business in Ottawa is run. Just ask yourself when you last saw such a comprehensive porposal to make government work again.
Only time will tell if the Conservatives can sell their idea to more Canadians, and more importantly, if the powers that be actually decide to listen.
posted by Jason at 1:33 a.m.
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