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This isn't enough
Ford next. Media needs to keep pressure up.
Ford MUST GO! How the F is it this man who was given literally BAGS of money in public by real estate developer friends with stroke of a pen made them billionaires still in office? How is that kind of corruption ALLOWED to happen in a democracy like this?
Because of democracy. Democracy requires people to work, and, quite frankly, we aren't willing to work. This happened because we let it. When was the last time the average Ontarian did anything to participate in that democracy? I expect the answer is never.
The closest thing we've seen to democratic action in years was the trucker rally in Ottawa, and that was, what, thousands of people at most? Where are the tens of millions of Ontarians hiding right now?
That's how it is allowed to happen. Who is going to uphold the democracy other than the democratic public? There certainly isn't some alien overload making sure we play by some kind of rules. It's just people.
The provincial leaders are the population at large. They should have all the power. That's what a democracy entails.
The third rank employees hired by the MPPs/MLAs are who enjoy too much power. They don't have that power on paper, but because the leaders don't want to do anything but watch life unfold on TV, they can get away with it. When the technical leaders don't care to step in, who else is going to stop them?
We do not elect leaders. We elect representatives to represent the leaders (us). It is true that those representatives then hire a leader of their choosing to keep things in line while in the legislature. Is that the leader you are thinking of? That person is a leader, but is not the leader of the province, and is most certainly not chosen by democratic election. It is considered to be an appointed position.
The media? Email your MPP.
Done that. Media is far more effective IMHO
my MPP is Lisa MacLoud. Emailing her would be useless. The current PC wouldn't listen to her since she repeatedly embarrassed them as a minister during the previous term.
if Lisa MacLeod votes against the PCs while part of the PC caucus, I'll eat lemmy.ca.
MP and MPP independence from the parties is theatrical only. The parties own their future and they know better than to stand against them.
@johnefrancis @sbv I'm sorry. 😔