Politics is a blood sport, unfamiliar to the common voter. It’s a game that is populated by the treacherous and black-hearted. Remember “E tu Brute?”
Well, the sport is alive, well and practiced with a passion in Canada today. Read this email notification sent out by the Pickering Uxbridge Constituency Distract Association: –> PUCDA
The notification states that candidate Anthony Yacub is ineligible to campaign for the nomination for Conservative candidate for the riding because he served on a PUCDA nomination committee, since resigning from all positions associated with PUCDA.
This notification is pure ‘dirty politics.’ Anthony Yacub, a long-time party member who has devoted himself to passionately serving the party for many years, even at his youthful age, has been forbidden to campaign for the riding nomination position. This is politics practiced at its worst and it is a shameful example of how badly politics can be practiced in Canada, in this day and age.
Rules may be justifiable and in place for acceptable reasons. However, democratic principles should trump all local political regulations. If a citizen wishes to campaign for a political position in any election in Canada, the campaign rules should be reviewed and gauged against democratic rights. PUCDA has eschewed that consideration and chosen to forbid a citizen from his constitutional right of association/assembly.
The rule may be justified and in place for valid reasons but again, democracy must trump all rules, particularly today when democracy is being tested and challenged throughout the world.
PUCDA may be short-sighted in the effects the imposition of this regulation may have on its image. The Conservative executives in Ottawa should take note and act on this in a constructive and practical way with due consideration of Canadian democracy.
