Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Hey, Nathan Cullen, Dennis Bevington, Charlie Angus, Niki Ashton, and Carol Hughes
We in the cities want to know why you are stabbing us in the back? This is a deal breaker for me. If any NDP member votes for this bill, and is not expelled from caucus, then I'm afraid it's over between us. Don't ask me for money and don't expect my vote. Your party will be dead to me. You might as well go join up with the Liberals.
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Wow, seriously? How come?
ReplyDeleteMe, I'm anything but passionate about maintaining this, and I live smack dab in the middle of one of Canada's biggest cities. Why? Because we're not talking "the gun registry," here, we're talking "the longgun registry". I.e., hunting tools. Everything I've read suggests that the police don't actually use information from that part of the registry anyway, and so taking a principled stand about keeping this would be more about ideology than any actual usefulness.
I'm very much of the "you win some, you lose some" approach to politics, and unlike most of the other stuff on the table right now, this is one of the ones I'm willing to lose.
Gee & y'all on the left wonder why the Tories are the dominant party in rural Canada. As long as you think that farmers & duck hunters are bigger threats to society than gang bangers & murderers, you'll be nowhere out in the country.
ReplyDeleteOh BTW did you see The Plan yet?? If not do yourself a favour & watch it. Cavil was in fine form
ReplyDeleteRural Canadians shoot one another in astounding quantities, McGuire. You're no better than anyone else.
ReplyDeletewow...4 comments on a post
ReplyDeletesomebody does read you
"We in the cities want to know why you are stabbing us in the back?"
ReplyDeleteSimple, because they represent their constituents. I know that the people in Toronto and Montreal think the world revolves around them but some of us (the large majority) think different.
Trevor, prove to me rural Canada represents a majority of the country. They may represent a large block in the H of C, but that's only because we have turned the idea of representation by population upside down in this country.
ReplyDeleteI didn't say that rural Canada represents a majority of the country. I said that people who don't live in Toronto or Montreal represent a majority.
ReplyDeleteFYI, I live in urban Canada.
My point is this bill is getting as far as it is for two reasons. 1. Rural voters have a greater share of seats in the H of C than their numbers warrant. 2. The Conservatives are playing the other parties for chumps.
ReplyDeleteIn Bevington's case (he's my MP) it is simple electoral survival. Northerners loathe the gun registry. I don't agree with him, but the calculation is as simple as that.
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