Don’t waste your votes this fall

Dear Editor,

I am getting so bored with hearing the constant television advertising that the Conservative Party has put out. You know which one – where they are constantly saying Justin Trudeau broke the law.

We all know what happened and we are trying to get over it the best way we can, but the Conservative  candidates will not let it go. I often wonder why the photographs of Justin Trudeau didn’t surface in his very first run. Most Canadians would probably not have elected him, but they did. Every party thinks that their person is the greatest and would do a good job. Think about it, unless you have a majority government every thing that you have promised in your campaign is circumspect. Unless you have the support of another party, it will be very difficult to fulfill your promises, because the entire house may not agree. There goes that promise up in smoke.

That scenario applies to every party that may get elected. A vote for Andrew Scheer is like voting for Doug Ford’s government or Jason Kenney’s government, albeit we have no control over the latter.

The only way that I can see to get young people to vote is to offer them free post-secondary education. Even some of the Baby Boomers do not vote because they are so disillusioned. The middle class people (some of them) do not vote for that very reason as well.

I have a friend that is almost 50 years old, and her and her husband have never voted because they say it does not matter who they vote for because the government will do what it wants anyway. They are not far off. You may get elected with all of your grandiose promises and soon find out you cannot keep them unless there are several elected officials that think the same. So a person becomes an “elected” official very soon. Your promises disappear very soon once you get to Ottawa. Sometimes it takes years to get a simple bill through Parliament and then get it to pass and become a law – I may have explained it wrong but I tried.

I understand why young people are disillusioned but since most of them are not stupid they must reaize their right and vote. It may take several years to get you party in, but at least your vote counted.  The couple I mentioned earlier also told me they were far too busy to research the candidates that were running and also they just did not care. I care and so I will be voting.

Ron Horner