All year individuals and families contact their local MP’s office with the concerns that affect their daily lives and these issues are important to them not just on an appointed election date. Some of these issues never get any attention or they are shuffled off to some office or staff member that cannot resolve the concerns of the individual and on Election Day they will never be resolved.
Election issues should not be set by political parties nor should they be determined by governments who have not throughout their term settled the public concerns and individual concerns that have risen throughout their term in office.
As a Canadian citizen I have exercised my democratic rights throughout the process during the time period any elected Mp has set in the House by bringing forward my concerns to anyone of them in any party. At times I may receive a reply but quite frankly nothing really comes about it.
Election time addresses your concerns when you bring forward them at the debates and hold these running candidates to the coal fires and to find out why the most important things that are important to you are not part of their platform, and why your concerns were never addressed in the past after contacting them over the years. Democracy holds your concerns up front and the candidates are responsible to answer them with precise answers, and if they don’t you may wish to consider moving on to another party or individual who will.
The outstanding issue for me as an individual is our nuclear reactors that are operating in Canada, and as all of the world watches what disaster that has taken place in Japan, I am concerned, no I am more than concerned, and I wonder why is it no one has brought this up as a major topic/concern in this federal election.
With all the alternative power choices we have why would we choose to have one that can destroy our very lives and environment on this continent and planet? The question for me is which Party, not candidate, will shut down these reactors in Canada permanently to safeguard our lives and our children’s future. As everyone has watched the disaster that hit Japan and the effects it’s going to cause to their lives and who knows where else the tragedy will spread to from a natural disaster, everyone can determine you cannot control Mother Nature there are no safeguards there is only human loss and human suffering.
The issue for me in this election is to shut down these reactors as this is being proposed in Germany as I type this letter, and permanently dismantle these sites, and as for the waste that is buried underground here in Canada, the scientists can figure out how we can get this contamination off this planet.
Cran Campbell
Delta, BC.
