Changing Campaigns

Election Day in British Columbia is on Saturday and the Official Count in Alberta is completed. The Conservatives have called for a Federal Election and the campaign trails are changing.

Blogging has become a new campaign era – people are wanting to share their political views with others and find other like thinking people who may take the time to convince those of us that are not sure. Democracy is about the right to choose who reflects the current issues that are important to us – the electorate. So in idealistic terms – this is great and all should be available to assist us to be critical thinkers and make an informed choice.

The disturbing part is how – what begins as sharing – becomes deceit, name calling, condemning and derogatory personal character assassinations of individuals – many of whom are not even seeking election. There have been many in Alberta, including elders who have been a victim of such unethical types of persecution. The cowards that have hid behind a political campaign to do this have tried to hide their deception of their maliciousness by then deleting the public posts within a couple of weeks or in some instances days.

Many of the contributors to these attacks stood behind pseudonyms but as in all good technology things are traceable and the deleting of posts is only completed once hard copies of things are made. There is talk of the pursuit of lawsuits that will follow shortly. As for RCMP investigations – the only investigation is the economic crimes of some of the political leaders in relationship to their questionable activities around the infamous health dollars and the aggressive assaults that were allegedly perpetrated at one of the polls by Mr. Trevor Gladue supporters. I will post updates to these issues if they are pursued and as things come to light in relationship to the issues that are factual.

I do want to add at this point that in Alberta – we have weathered the storm and as a result – we have a very strong elected Provincial Council who will begin working together to address issues that are around moving the Métis Agenda forward. The majority of the dissidents have been taken out and the interference of President Chartrand will have to be abandoned so that the importance of our priorities will be what we move forward on.

In the meantime, for those in British Columbia your responsibility is to get involved and vote on Saturday. Be involved and assert your right to vote and choose who best represents your values and priorities.

For the others – learn who is running in the Federal Election and make a choice that will have a government elected that is willing to work with the Métis people. The various parties all have policies that identify their position on Aboriginal people and what their philosophies are in regard to the future of the aboriginal community. Based on your beliefs or what you feel is important – make an informed choice. As for our elected National leaders – do not support any one political partisan agenda – your job is to support the Métis agenda. Each of you are in ownership of bylaws or constitutions that clearly identify that we should never have any affiliation with any partisan politics.

Just a few thoughts for the day.