Election Picks

 If I had my pick during these election period antics, it would be for each candidate in each and every area to post their platform publicly on line and perhaps in the other media, along with specific details on how it would be carried out. With that, I would love to see a time line and budget numbers telling where the money is coming from, and most of all, how that will affect me as an average tax payer. I am not interested in hearing about huge billions of dollars in developments and constructions and world enterprises because that does not directly affect me. Of course it does indirectly, but most of us are more concerned with such trivia in our faces, such as rent, mortgages and groceries. We are the today, here and now people.  Health care is a major, as well as dealing with huge social issues such as addiction, racism and crime. Employment and immigration seem to go hand in hand, also. Locally, I don't need signs and pictures, door knocking and phone solicitations, poll results or brochures. These are a terrible waste of money and time. Just give me the facts and then back off and let me do the thinking. And voting. I just have the one vote and haranguing isn't helping me focus on my decision of what to do with that one vote. To have the major political leaders showing up to answer questions without some idiot at the back of the room cat calling so that he can get a nice fat cheque from the opposition, is on on the wish list. I don't care to see supportive Mom or Dad and the kids in the background trying hard to smile as directed, nor do I want to hear about the tragic upbringing of the candidate and how he or she overcame their difficulties. I want the facts concerning my riding. Just that. What are you going to do if you are elected and how are you going to do it? Mostly, what is my part in it? When you, the candidate promise me billions for this or that, it has no meaning to me because it's pie in the sky. Doesn't happen for me. Doesn't seem to, right now. What I need is someone who is honest and hard working, not there to sit on a three piece suit and look pretty and handsome with a nice  outfit and a great pension to look forward to. I want someone there. We all know that there is "the office" and the people who actually do the work, not just the office top dog who signs on the dotted line. What we want to know is the person and periodical checks on what that elected being is doing, and has done, for us. In writing. We're not interested in how well that individual debates and who came out on top of that ridiculous show. Don't tell me it's a good test for parliamentarianism. We are smart enough to know an honest speech when we hear it, not lawyer blab. We want the one who stands up in parliament and sticks his/her neck out for us, the people who voted for him or perhaps, did not. We want the elected person who knows our community and its needs,  and how that's going. We want that elected man or woman to come to our area on a regular basis and be there to see what that is and without verbal dodging, we want straight answers and if they aren't available, to admit it. That is what I want and perhaps you, too?