Hey all...hope your days gone well.
I went to my local public forum for the candidates for the Wetaskiwin riding so that I could better inform myself for the forthcoming Election Day. There were supposed to be four of them, but only two bothered to show up: The PCs Blaine Calkins and the NDPs Tim Robson. Liberal candidate Chris Anderson and Green Party candidate Robert Johnston failed to show up for the third forum in a row, with no reason given for their absences.
There were some papers there for people to write down their questions on if they were too chicken to take the mike, and I submitted two of them (since Im as big a chicken as they come).
Question One: In light of the dangerous precedent of businesses being raided without a warrant, would the candidate do something to rescind or revise Bill C36 before it becomes active in June?
Question Two: Would you pursue the full legalization of electronic cigarettes in Canada?
In answer to Q1, Mr. Calkins stated that the lack of warrants is reasonable action to take in order to protect consumers from health products that are possibly not of safe quality, but that he wholeheartedly supports Natural Health Products.
GRRRRR......
Mr. Robson had no idea what my question referred to and rambled on about how insurance should cover natural remedies.
For Question Two, my query about ecigs must have been from QUITE out of left field, since half of the several-hundred-strong audience twittered and giggled. I was glad I wasnt at the mike for that one and I kind of shrunk into my seat a little bit.
However, Mr. Calkins took the podium and stated that he wasnt at ALL familiar with them, so he couldnt really speak to that at the moment. Hed be happy to talk about it in person though.
Mr. Robson said he wasnt familiar with them either, but nonetheless emphatically denounced them, saying that to use them as a stop smoking aid was like giving liquor to an alcoholic (to which he got several claps and cheers...gag me).
So, there I sat thru the remainder of the questions, figuring, Well THAT did a whole lot of good...NOT.
The audience was dismissed by the chairperson at the end, but then right away, she said, Oh, wait a minute everybody! Blaines just looked up electronic cigarettes on his phone! Ive never even seen one of those things.
So the whole place was standing there, listening to Blaine reading off the first few bits of the Wikipedia entry on ecigs...and while he did so, I walked up to the stage (didnt go on it though) and VAPED in front of God and everybody!!!
Holy crap, my heart was beating a mile a minute because people were staring and pointing at me and saying, Oh, look at that! Blaine then said, "Well, there you go, folks! You can't go home tonight and say you didn't learn something."
The moment passed pretty quickly though. I thanked Blaine for bringing up ecigs and said Id love to chat with him sometime about it since I KNOW it's improved and saved lives...we shook hands, and I fairly much bolted from the building!!!!
That probably sounds kind of far out, but Im honestly telling the whole truth here. My hearts still racing, a couple of hours later. Some public speaker Id make. Ponokas a small place, so a person can kind of do that sort of stuff at our venues. Maybe the local paper will say something about it next week and I can put the clip up here in case someone thinks Im lying. Im sure I looked like a bit of a freak, but I really didnt go ranting on or anything. Just vaped.
Here are a couple of very bad pictures. Tim Robson wore a green and white checkered shirt with Pepe laPew and Bugs Bunny on it:
Blaine Calkins (incumbent) was in simple dress casual, Alberta style jeans with suit jacket:
Sigh. The candidates in my riding are sure making it hard for me to decide my vote. Vote for an incumbent who has a proven track record of community involvement in my area (though I hate his party for C36), or cast my vote to one of three weeners?
I went to my local public forum for the candidates for the Wetaskiwin riding so that I could better inform myself for the forthcoming Election Day. There were supposed to be four of them, but only two bothered to show up: The PCs Blaine Calkins and the NDPs Tim Robson. Liberal candidate Chris Anderson and Green Party candidate Robert Johnston failed to show up for the third forum in a row, with no reason given for their absences.
There were some papers there for people to write down their questions on if they were too chicken to take the mike, and I submitted two of them (since Im as big a chicken as they come).
Question One: In light of the dangerous precedent of businesses being raided without a warrant, would the candidate do something to rescind or revise Bill C36 before it becomes active in June?
Question Two: Would you pursue the full legalization of electronic cigarettes in Canada?
In answer to Q1, Mr. Calkins stated that the lack of warrants is reasonable action to take in order to protect consumers from health products that are possibly not of safe quality, but that he wholeheartedly supports Natural Health Products.
GRRRRR......
Mr. Robson had no idea what my question referred to and rambled on about how insurance should cover natural remedies.
For Question Two, my query about ecigs must have been from QUITE out of left field, since half of the several-hundred-strong audience twittered and giggled. I was glad I wasnt at the mike for that one and I kind of shrunk into my seat a little bit.
However, Mr. Calkins took the podium and stated that he wasnt at ALL familiar with them, so he couldnt really speak to that at the moment. Hed be happy to talk about it in person though.
Mr. Robson said he wasnt familiar with them either, but nonetheless emphatically denounced them, saying that to use them as a stop smoking aid was like giving liquor to an alcoholic (to which he got several claps and cheers...gag me).
So, there I sat thru the remainder of the questions, figuring, Well THAT did a whole lot of good...NOT.
The audience was dismissed by the chairperson at the end, but then right away, she said, Oh, wait a minute everybody! Blaines just looked up electronic cigarettes on his phone! Ive never even seen one of those things.
So the whole place was standing there, listening to Blaine reading off the first few bits of the Wikipedia entry on ecigs...and while he did so, I walked up to the stage (didnt go on it though) and VAPED in front of God and everybody!!!
Holy crap, my heart was beating a mile a minute because people were staring and pointing at me and saying, Oh, look at that! Blaine then said, "Well, there you go, folks! You can't go home tonight and say you didn't learn something."
The moment passed pretty quickly though. I thanked Blaine for bringing up ecigs and said Id love to chat with him sometime about it since I KNOW it's improved and saved lives...we shook hands, and I fairly much bolted from the building!!!!
That probably sounds kind of far out, but Im honestly telling the whole truth here. My hearts still racing, a couple of hours later. Some public speaker Id make. Ponokas a small place, so a person can kind of do that sort of stuff at our venues. Maybe the local paper will say something about it next week and I can put the clip up here in case someone thinks Im lying. Im sure I looked like a bit of a freak, but I really didnt go ranting on or anything. Just vaped.
Here are a couple of very bad pictures. Tim Robson wore a green and white checkered shirt with Pepe laPew and Bugs Bunny on it:
Blaine Calkins (incumbent) was in simple dress casual, Alberta style jeans with suit jacket:
Sigh. The candidates in my riding are sure making it hard for me to decide my vote. Vote for an incumbent who has a proven track record of community involvement in my area (though I hate his party for C36), or cast my vote to one of three weeners?
and thankz....
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