https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/30/canadians-react-to-cancelling-digital-services-tax/
Duh. No one elected them to go elbows down. Gonna be a short lived minority.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/30/canadians-react-to-cancelling-digital-services-tax/
Duh. No one elected them to go elbows down. Gonna be a short lived minority.
Already sent an email to my MP, at least it’s something.
I would send an email to my MP but he is a do nothing back bencher who will take credit for Carney’s failures.
Mine’s a cabinet minister 🤢
Like I’m emailing anyway but it’s gonna be swiftly ignored.
Maybe I will email mine then if you know nothing is going to happen? Brad Reddicop is a joke and a conservative.
Reddicop is the perfect name for a shitty Reddit mod.
Try sending an actual written letter: maybe it will be a little bit attention because in this day and age of e-mail, it’s actual paper letters that are oddities that get people’s attention.
For anyone who’s not aware, letters to your MP (and certain other members of the federal government) are postage free, so you don’t need a stamp.
https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/articles/government-mail-free-of-postage/overview.page
Note this doesn’t apply to provincial positions, so you’d have to stamp a letter to an MLA.
Me too - people are pissed. We do not capitulate to fash. Poland and Austria did and Germany still invaded them.
I’m curious to hear Charlie Angus’s response to this capitulation.
Just a sidenote, Austria was as much victim as it was perpetrator under the nazi regime.
Sure, after they were a perpetrator and supported them for literally the entire war, they fell victim. Just like Russia, etc.
You don’t get to side with Nazi’s/fascists even once, and then claim victim-hood.
Austria was annexed before the war.
What sort of thing do you write? I’m always uncertain how to word these types of emails.
My two cents: Imagine you’re writing a polite (or not) note to your neighbour about something they or one of their family members is doing that is causing harm to your neighbourhood.
State what you don’t like, why you don’t like it and implications, preferred paths forward, and outcome you’d like to see. If you know what your ‘neighbour’ campaigned on/the rhetoric they used, particularly if you voted for them, you can reference that (for example, “The Elbows Up movement united Canadians at a time of great uncertainty. It is incredibly discouraging to watch our representatives drop their guard against US interests with no regard for, and active hostility to, the interests of Canadians.” or whatever).
If you want, you can close with the suggestion that should you feel they are not adequately advancing your interests as a constituent, they will not have your support in the next election. Taking from the neighbour analogy, think “If you don’t shape up, we’ll take this to the HOA (your fellow constituents) and kick your ass out.”
How much good does this all ultimately do? Depends on who you ask, really. But as a Canadian you have the right to express your opinions and concerns to those who represent you in government - so say what you want heard. No matter the impact, it’s better than silence.
I’ve sent so many emails since all this began. I get no response. Per usual. My MP is indigenous for fuck sakes.
same and it was a nasty one