Well, we lost by about a thousand votes.
To make matters worse, they insulted dad in the commentary of The National, saying that he was "so far to the Christian right" that there was no way he would ever be elected.
Now, I'm not going to bother with that inaccurate and most frusterating remark, which was said on national tv (that was being watched by thousands of people). It did, however, remind me of the propaganda poster that I took down off the street yesterday "VOTE NO 2 REID - NO EXTREME RIGHT WINGERS!".
This has been a hard campaign. There has been horrible propaganda that I've read about my father, mixed with tv commentators and Vancouver Sun articles. I absolutely hate it, I'm very glad it's done. Knowing the trash that the Liberal Party spews makes me furious, and the fact that it actually worked makes me even more so.
This is very hard for me to deal with. I respect and love my dad so much. The hard thing is that I know what kind of a person Raymond Chan is based on the way that he's treated us. And I don't want a person like that representing me in Ottowa.
All that aside, I can not tell you how proud I am of my father. Dad has amazing courage and intelligence. I cannot think of a harder (or scarier) thing to do than to stand up to an entire city, putting your opinions out there for all to see, and fighting for them.
Through this campaign I have met some truly amazing people. This has shown me that there are genuinely good people in the world. Many people put their heart and soul into this, and all for a person that they only met a few months ago. And it does seem like a bit of a waste. All this effort for nothing. But I'm trying to avoid thinking like that. At least we gave Chan a damn good run for his money.
I don't know what's going to happen now. But I know that we will be taken care of. God's will was done tonight. And it was a huge shock. But this all happened for a reason that we don't know - and we have to trust God with the results.
""...let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus...so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."
- Hebrews 12:1,2,3
To make matters worse, they insulted dad in the commentary of The National, saying that he was "so far to the Christian right" that there was no way he would ever be elected.
Now, I'm not going to bother with that inaccurate and most frusterating remark, which was said on national tv (that was being watched by thousands of people). It did, however, remind me of the propaganda poster that I took down off the street yesterday "VOTE NO 2 REID - NO EXTREME RIGHT WINGERS!".
This has been a hard campaign. There has been horrible propaganda that I've read about my father, mixed with tv commentators and Vancouver Sun articles. I absolutely hate it, I'm very glad it's done. Knowing the trash that the Liberal Party spews makes me furious, and the fact that it actually worked makes me even more so.
This is very hard for me to deal with. I respect and love my dad so much. The hard thing is that I know what kind of a person Raymond Chan is based on the way that he's treated us. And I don't want a person like that representing me in Ottowa.
All that aside, I can not tell you how proud I am of my father. Dad has amazing courage and intelligence. I cannot think of a harder (or scarier) thing to do than to stand up to an entire city, putting your opinions out there for all to see, and fighting for them.
Through this campaign I have met some truly amazing people. This has shown me that there are genuinely good people in the world. Many people put their heart and soul into this, and all for a person that they only met a few months ago. And it does seem like a bit of a waste. All this effort for nothing. But I'm trying to avoid thinking like that. At least we gave Chan a damn good run for his money.
I don't know what's going to happen now. But I know that we will be taken care of. God's will was done tonight. And it was a huge shock. But this all happened for a reason that we don't know - and we have to trust God with the results.
""...let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus...so that you will not grow weary and lose heart."
- Hebrews 12:1,2,3
posted by Lisa at
10:22 PM
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except the bloc. The Duceppe said that he would fight the conservatives on 'stricter gun laws', etc.
Dad had a very moderate platform, actually. The 'ultra right wing' image was slander from the liberals. It sucks that people will settle for mediocre because they can't look past the propaganda.
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Sarah, at 8:31 AM
Chan doesn't even count as mediocre. What with him being a snake-in-the-grass and all.
They say that there's not going to be another election for at least a year, possibly two. No party wants to force one, and the Liberals need time to reform. So we're probably looking at about two years.
It's interesting that these ultra-right-wing reforms that he will supposedly impose once in power have never actually surfaced (in the party platform, in their "promises", etc. I hope that people will realize that he doesn't actually have an agenda. Unless he actually does, in which case I will admit that I was wrong. But I doubt it.
I think he's going to be able to pass the GST cut, the accountability act, and the mandatory sentancing laws. Basically a mandetory sentance for a certain crime - no out early on parole crap. I think everyone will welcome that. Canada is waaay to cushy.
You SURE you don't wanna get shot? You could come back and haunt me.
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Lisa, at 11:07 PM
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