DEMOCRACY AND SENORITY

Last night at work (The Killing) I mentioned to  a fellow driver that there was no point in voting for NDP because they won't promise to bring back our seniority.
He replied, "You can't bring it back. It is gone. it is law."
Well, isn't that the whole point of electing a new Government, to change the law.
That's what governments do. They; make, break, and change laws.
The whole point of electing a new government is to get rid of the old laws that we don't like and get new laws that we do like.
However no new government is going to change the laws if we don't tell them which ones we want changed and how we want them changed.
Invariably we elect new officials to office and the reason we elect them is to undo the laws the previous officials had made. But they never change them.
Why, because they are too busy with their own agenda.
Now, during the pre election campaign trail, is when we need to tell them what we want.
We have to make them realize that if they want our vote, they need to put our agenda ahead of theirs.
That is what democracy is about.
It isn't important that you go to the meetings, and rallies, of a particular party.
You need to go to every rally and every meeting of every candidate, of every party.
You need to use; mail, E mail, phone calls, meetings, whatever it takes, to impress upon, ALL, candidates, regardless of their party affiliation, that if they want your vote they have to promise to do what you want when they get in power.
If the last party passed a law saying your union can not dispatch according to seniority then you must tell all candidates that you want that law rescinded and then vote for the cnadidate that promises to do so, regardless of what party he is a member of.
That my friends is how democracy works.

PLANNING TO DRIVE IN FLORIDA?

If you are one of the thousands who like to drive; to, or in, Florida you should take note.
In it's attempt to combat, illegal immigrants, and forged drivers' licences, the state of Florida now requires that all non residents have, in their possession, while driving, an INTERNATIONAL DRIVERS LICENSE.
This must be obtained before entering Florida.
As a Canadian it must be acquired before leaving Canada.
The only place that will issue such a document, in Canada, is the automobile association.
It can not be obtained from the government.
The law came into effect earlier this year.
However, there has been no word of any officers enforcing it.

Nearly ten years ago when the rest of the country was slipping into a recession B. C. was flying high.

We had one of the best economies in the world.

Then the Liberal Party, under the leadership of Gordon Campbell, decided they wanted to kill the Teamsters union.

At that time the film industry was bringing two billion dollars a year into the province.

The liberal party forced a clause into the contract between producers and the film industry which leagally killed the contract.

Then, and for the following few years, the movie companies stayed away from B. C.

Immediately B. C. fell into the recession with the rest of the world.

Over the past couple of years I have heard a lot of speeches, from a lot of people, asking,`How do we revive the film industry?'

But not once have I heard anyone promise to reverse the decision of the seniority clause.