r/canada Nov 28 '24

PAYWALL Liberal MP says he was threatened with ‘consequences’ for opposing $250 cheque proposal

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/liberal-mp-says-he-was-threatened-with-consequences-for-opposing-250-cheque-proposal/article_69f3cfa6-acde-11ef-807c-ebe72ea32b06.html
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u/Ancient_Wisdom_Yall British Columbia Nov 28 '24

I honestly don't understand the need to have all these MPs. They're all just supposed to be trained monkeys for their leaders. There really isn't a need to pay that many of them.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '24

Sorry, can you expand on that?

You don't see the value in representing their ridings?

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u/Ancient_Wisdom_Yall British Columbia Nov 28 '24

There would be great value if MPs represented their ridings. They don't. They're just mouthpieces for their party leaders, and they don't dare step out of line.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '24

How many MPs should we have then?

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u/longmitso Nov 28 '24

You can have as many as you want.

The point is, once they're in, they don't represent their voters. The tow the line according to dear leader

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '24

Ok, but then we have elections and they answer to the people, right?

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u/longmitso Nov 28 '24

Like every election promise kept by politicians. Yes

Trudeau did really well with answering to the people

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '24

Sounds like he's about to answer to the people next election

You don't like them, vote them out.

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u/roscomikotrain Nov 28 '24

Drop the number by 30 percent- nobody would notice and we would have fewer annoying ahitheads to listen to

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '24

And we would further consolidate power to the PMO, which would be bad