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Thread #136623   Message #3121248
Posted By: GUEST,999
25-Mar-11 - 09:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Canada Election
Subject: RE: BS: Canada Election
I think I'll vote for Claude DeBellefeuille, Députée de Beauharnois-Salaberry. She's with the Bloc Québécois, but when I wrote to our representatives asking what the government was doing about Libya--a few weeks back--the only party that replied to me was the Bloc. And it was hard for them, because mostly the party's supporters are French speaking. I wrote in English and then with the help of an on-line translator site, tried putting my words into French--and lord knows what I ended up saying. They also struggled with the English in which they answered me. BUT, they tried, despite my having told Claude a few times in writing that her party's language policies really peed me off--in polite terms of course. I find them to be straight-forward and honest.

She has and continues to be a great representative for the people of the Beauharnois-Salaberry electoral district, English speakers included. I am sick and tired being ignored by our MPs and getting vapid responses to the half dozen questions I pose each year. May change my decision, but likely not.

BM