We used to joke that we are not members of an organized political party. We are liberals. And it was never more obvious than when the wife and I went to vote the other day in the provincial leadership for the party. I have been seriously considering suing the party for its total incompetence.
If you have never seen my wife really pissed, you have had a lucky life. My problem is that I am the nearest liberal on whom she can direct her anger. The wife has been a paid-up member of the Ontario Liberal Party for more than 60 years. She actually married me despite the fact that we had never taken the time to talk about politics. It just wasn’t a topic on our agenda. Imagine our surprise when we came home from our honeymoon in time to vote in a federal election.
We went to our separate ridings to vote where we had been enumerated. It was then that I found out that we both voted liberal. She was the first to get involved in the party when she met our provincial candidate and offered him some help—mainly me.
She felt up to coming out with me to vote for Bonnie Crombie on Sunday and I was concerned about it. I was concerned because I had done everything to make sure she was registered to vote in the election and I had never seen anything to confirm she was listed. And my concern was confirmed. The liberal who was acting as poll clerk knew us and also expected to find the wife’s name on the list. Out of more than 300 liberals registered in our electoral district, the wife’s name was missing.
I consider it Justin Trudeau’s fault. I don’t think he likes the liberal party. We took up too much of his father’s time when he was a youngster. He dumped the liberal senators in the senate, he cancelled the federal membership fee. He uses the party list as his ATM.
And the Ontario party followed suit. They cancelled the wife’s membership. She was supposed to re-register but they forgot to tell her. I re-registered her to be on the safe side. It never happened.
When you consider that our ‘One person, one vote’ in an electoral district with over 300 registered liberals was treated as about a third of a vote each, it hardly seemed worth it.
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