Fire off angry e-mails, start up as many Facebook groups as you want, or even, as I've heard this evening, join cabinet ministers and ministers at a sit-in at Rideau Hall tomorrow if you want to make your point.
But firebombing the signs of someone you don't agree with? We don't do that in this country.
kinda reminds me of the Liberal Executive Director of PEI who during the last election got caught stealing Con signs. Nothing like breaking the law by the guy at the top.
I wonder if he was going to burn them too??
Completely agree.
Everybody – politicians, ordinary citizens, pundits – needs to tone down the rhetoric, including the party that I support.
• Stop with the finger-pointing outwards
• do an examination of conscience (we all have one, I'm sure)
• pray for a long recess for the holidays
• present the budget
• if the government falls on it, then … quick referendum!
Simple Yes/No question:
Yes … I want the Conservatives to continue their mandate
No … I want the coalition to take over the reins of government
BTW, the verification text read “gas33”
Talk about coincidences.
Absolutely agreed. Very un-Canadian. But then again, so is ploting with traitors to overthrow the elected government.
Some of Conservative Candidate Rochelle Wilner's signs were “firebombed”, or at least burned to the ground, here in York Centre during the election. One of them was right across from a Synagogue where the B'nai Brith debate took place, this being the organization she used to preside.
This kind of act is absolutely unacceptable and all parties should unequivocally condemn such behaviour.
The MPs you call “traitors” are freely elected representatives of the people of Quebec. They have as much legitimacy as any other MP from any part of Canada. I don't support the Bloc's aim to leave the Canadian federation, any more than I supported the narrow aims of the Reform/Alliance Party. But I do respect every Canadian's right to elect the people who represent them in parliament.
Right now, Stephen Harper is doing more damage to Canada than the Bloc ever has.
It would be nice if that weren't the Canadian way. Sadly, vandalizing signs is not new or unusual. Either you have never worked with a local campaign or you were blessed with well-behaved rivals.