I despair at times as well. One of my biggest beefs is that in addition to
the absolute lack of concern by elected representatives, is the failure of
supporters to take the necessary action.  What I mean by this is:

1) How many of you on this list take the time to send letters to editors,
your elected MPs or others?  If you do, great, if not, why not. They will
not fire you.  They simply count letters, emails, etc.

2) In addition to members of this list, there are literally thousands of
people who read our stuff, attend our lectures, see themselves as
supporters, but do nothing.

The reason the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, other media, elected reps --
the Sandra Pupatello's, Gerard Kennedy's the Jack Laytons (whose platform
is good, but dare not speak the word poverty in public)  get away with this
is that they see NO consequences for their actions.

If Edward Greenspon and Paul Taylor -- the evil editor and health editor of
the Globe and Mail respectively were told  - repeatedly -- that their
health coverage is crap, they might be more receptive to doing something
about it.

So, let's begin right now!

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Ontario
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Services
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Minister of Education
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Provide similar emails to the list for your province/state!

By the way, the following appeared yesterday in the Toronto Star, but not
in the internet version...
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Re: Protecting our social programs, March 16, 2006.  While in Opposition,
Sandra Pupatello made the rounds of anti-poverty and Faith groups groups
commiserating with them about how awful the Conservative government was
treating people on social assistance.  Her party promised to end the
claw-back of the National Child Benefit to families on social assistance.
Once elected, they changed their mind. Enough said.

Dennis Raphael

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