Whipping the NDP: Jack Won’t, So We Will
Jack Layton just won’t do his job.
Jack won’t whip (or at least kindly ask) his rural MPs to vote against the private member’s bill in the House of Commons. For more background on this, read my original post.
The rationale is that he won’t whip his fellow MPs into a position that their constituents may not want. I understand, but will tell you that a good leader won’t have to use ‘whipping’ to convince his MPs that they’re doing the right thing.
However, this won’t happen and it throws the leadership of the NDP into question.
But that’s a longer and more involved issue that we have to return to later.
In the interim, we (you, me and everyone else that cares about safety in Canada) have some work to do.
Below is a full list of NDP MPs that may wind up supporting the private member’s bill and the Conservative effort to dissolve the Gun Registry.
Ask them what makes them smarter about this than the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police.
Remind them that for every vote they keep in a rural riding (assuming we have an election tomorrow, which we won’t), they’ll likely lose 10-100 votes in urban areas.
I sure as hell won’t vote for the NDP if this get through!
Here’s a quick list of all of the email addresses so you can copy/paste them to your email:
Allen.Ma@parl.gc.ca, AngusC@parl.gc.ca, Ashton.N@parl.gc.ca, BevinD@parl.gc.ca, Cullen.N@parl.gc.ca, Gravelle.C@parl.gc.ca, Hughes.C@parl.gc.ca, Hyer.B@parl.gc.ca, Maloway.J@parl.gc.ca, Rafferty.J@parl.gc.ca, StoffP@parl.gc.ca, Thibeault.G@parl.gc.ca
And here are the details (remember that calling is much more effective than emailing):
Allen, Malcolm
Welland
T: 905-788-2204
Ottawa: 613-995-0988
Email: Allen.Ma@parl.gc.ca
Angus, Charlie
Timmins/James Bay
T: 705-567-2747
Ottawa: 613-992-2919
Email: AngusC@parl.gc.ca
Ashton, Niki
Churchill
T: 866-785-0522
Ottawa: 613-992-3018
Email: Ashton.N@parl.gc.ca
Bevington, Dennis
Western Arctic
T: 867-873-6995
Ottawa: 613-992-4587
Email: BevinD@parl.gc.ca
Cullen, Nathan
Skeena Bulkley Valley
T: (250) 877-4140
Ottawa: 613 993 6654
Email: Cullen.N@parl.gc.ca
Gravelle, Claude
Nickel Belt
T: 705-897-2222
Ottawa: 613-995-9107
Email: Gravelle.C@parl.gc.ca
Hughes, Carol
Algoma / Manitoulin / Kapuskasing
T: 705-848-8080
Ottawa: 613-996-5376
Email: Hughes.C@parl.gc.ca
Hyer, Bruce
Thunder Bay / Superior North
T: 807-345-1818
Ottawa: 613 996 4792
Email: Hyer.B@parl.gc.ca
Maloway, Jim
Elmwood / Transcona
T: 204-984-2499
Ottawa: 613-995-6339
Email: Maloway.J@parl.gc.ca
Rafferty, John
Thunder Bay / Rainy River
T: 807-623-6000
Ottawa: 613 992 3061
Email: Rafferty.J@parl.gc.ca
Stoffer, Peter
Sackville / Eastern Shore
T: 902-861-2311
Ottawa: 613-995-5822
Email: StoffP@parl.gc.ca
Thibeault, Glenn
Sudbury
T: 705-673-7107
Ottawa: 613-996-8962
Email: Thibeault.G@parl.gc.ca
Call them today. Tell your friends to call them. Remind them of the cost to the popularity of the NDP if they fail to support such a simple and basic way to keep our cities safe.
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What do you know that the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police don’t? Why are they supporting this important initiative?
First things first: stop spewing the Con BS and party line. This IS a popular program.
You register your car, your kids, your house and thousands of other things. Registering a gun simply gives police an opportunity to verify if someone has firearms before checking domestic or other situations, protecting themselves and most likely protecting those involved.
Jack’s job is to share this fundamental principle with ALL of his team, including those in rural ridings.
It’s also important to realize that we will not have an election any time soon. When we finally do, these fine MPs will find a way to define what they’ve done that’s positive as opposed to what might be perceived as negative.
Finally, the cost of sustaining all of these rural votes will be immense for the NDP: if the gun registry dies, urban voters will flee them en masse.
Making this sacrifice just doesn’t make sense.
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