After 37 days of campaigning that featured disinformation, half-truths and out right lies, we are at election day in Canada.
Fact Checks
There was a rigorous amount of fact-checking after each debate and every campaign stop. The leaders of the NDP, Liberals. Conservatives and The Bloc were all found to have engaged in all three of the above.
No one stood above the others when it came to veracity.
However, for the most part, the majority of statements made by each leader were reasonably close to truth.
I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not.
Fear fuelled much of some campaigns.
That serves only to poison the population. Most campaign ads are directed to a party’s base and only serve to deepen the divide and stoke the fear.
I have to say from a 10,000 foot view of our country, that Canada is not broken as some espouse. Canadians rallied up and came together to resist the fear and tariffs imposed by our southern neighbour.
Uncertainty is something the markets and citizens loathe.
There is lots of it.
Hope
And not that they are perfect, but I have observed a tenacious resolve in Ukrainians to fight back against a neighbour trying to steal their country.
They have so little but they have done so much with what they have.
We can learn from the resolve in standing against fear.
Oh. I chose the colour red for the section titles because it’s Canada’s colour.
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Good Morning Pastor Bob. I enjoyed this morning’s blog & I am ready to vote today. My polling station is only a 2 block walk away…at my kids Elementary School that they had attended. If there is a characteristic that I loathe the most, it’s dishonesty. So, I would have to agree with you. Lots of misinformation & lies being told…by everyone. Some people…lying more than others. So, I depend on myself to fact check & find out from reliable sources. Not any sources that lean one way or another…pure facts. I’m not interested in the parties…only interested in voting for the person…who best reflects the same issues that I want, living in Canada. & A party that works for the people…& not for their own interests, gain & ego. I will be making a decision for who will be a good leader…honest, forth-coming & one that has the most concern for Canada & it’s citizens. Not a person looking to line their own pockets with our hard-earned money. Which seems to be the norm for some politicians. Thank you for sharing this blog with us. Only time will tell…who our next leaders will be. Have a great week! ❤️
Although it is not likely to ever happen in our world as it is now, it would be refreshing to see polarizing moments like this election, or COVID as an even better example, where leaders rise up in the public view to pull people together. There can be differences of positions, policies, and even personalities but if leaders would avoid playing their hands through creating fear and antagonism, and instead focus on facts, reasonable approaches to tackling the problems (not the persons), and respect for all, then just maybe the most difficult of our problems will not seem so big after all. People will be neighbours and leaders will actually be by the people for the people.
It’s a good dream!
(not unlike the picture we have of a day coming when the lion will lay down beside a lamb, and weapons will be made into plows).
What I can do even now is to be light, as He would want us to.
Great thoughts, Wayne. It seems as though political expediency and populism controls the rhetoric rather than rallying calls for a nation based on our founding principles. Each of the parties have a unique focus which led the formation of the party in the first place. Together, all those focuses combined would make for a great Canada.
Thank you, Julie. I’m looking forward to seeing who comes out as the leader. I must say that the narrative around Carney not really being the Prime Minister because he was not elected is a complete lack of understanding of the Canadian political system. Canada is not America.