Tom Says: “No Election Please…”
A little more than two years ago, millions of Canadians including yours truly, went to the polls to elect a new Federal Government. It was our duty as interested Canadians to take part in a system which allows us to elect the men and women who would take care of country business for at least four years.
We as Canadians are programmed to listen to all the hot air, promises and threats which come from the mouths of all those who want us to vote for them every four years.
We send them to Ottawa with the honour of being our members of Parliament and we don’t mind seeing them come back into their ridings asking for our support every four years.
We fully expect all of our residential neighbourhoods will be polluted with signs of various size, shape and colour every four years.
We expect to turn on the television and see the smiling faces and hear the promises of what they can do for us every four years.
As the host of a radio talk show, I feel compelled to provide for federal political parties, “air time” on The Afternoon News so that various candidates can slam their opponents and extol their own virtues every four years.
Those of us who read the newspaper, (and that’s happening in ever decreasing numbers) expect to pick up one and read a biography of all the candidates running in our local riding every four years.
Canadians have come to expect innumeration notices in their mail boxes every four years.
It is our duty to ensure our names are on the voting list every four years.
To shorten the time period between elections to anything under four years would be a giant pain in the ass! So, consider the following as a plea if you must to messieurs Harper, Dion, Layton, Duceppe and all other party leaders…
PLEASE GET ALONG!!! …Because the last thing we as Canadians want to do is go to the polls any sooner than every four years.
I’m Tom Young.
February 18th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
time for manetory voting . 1oo dollors off your income tax if you don’t.
its the duty of goverment to make sure the people are aware!!
if you take money from me ,i start to pay attention.
you won’t have to tell me twice.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
im a political science major and member of the young liberals club. i have to say the sh*t i heard from your callers today on the Cadman story was off the wall. most of them are so quick to deflect any kind of wrong doing off the conservative party. one caller said.. oh he was on his deathbad, confused on drugs. im a nurses aid in a hospital and have witnessed death. not everybody starts fabricating stories requiring national attention. the man had skin cancer god bless him, not dementia. also another caller mentioned, oh maybe he was thinking of another party, and he was mixed up. oh ok, so if another party bribed him, its possible, but if it was the tories.. then Cadman must be crazy. come the f*ck on, although i do listen to this radio station, it is clearly evident that it is not only highly conservative in nature, but if i were to ignore the tones of voices id swear im listening to rush limbaugh half the time. also andrew krystal mentioned.. if it were the liberals trying to take out the government they would have done the same thing. for f*cksake.. it wasnt the liberals, it was the tories. quit thinking your god damn goverment is squeeky clean and be willing to accept the fact that despite your political views you push on your viewers the conservatives have a strong history and present of getting their hands dirty. anytime you wish to debate me you can shoot me an email and id love to call in and we can give your listeners something to listen to