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Originally Posted by SteelTown
Certainly didn't produce any result and he's on the side of the majority at the committee.
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It takes a lot to get results. Some cities have many more MPs with the right connections working for them. For example K-W has 4 CPC MPs, including a junior minister. Whether intentional or not, due to the number of MPs in the government lobbying for them, K-W will get attention whenever it comes time for the Finance Minister to make a decision because he has four MPs including a Minister begging him, rather than just one. That's not to say that opposition MPs do not count, but rather that their words don't carry nearly as much weight with ministers as that of government mps.
It was that way under the Liberals (anyone remember PET giving the west the finger after not winning many seats out there?) , and it will be that way under the Conservatives. If the NDP got elected it would be the same under them.
You can't win them all. But all I was saying is that Sweet has not been absent or particularly ineffective, and I fail to see how stating that he is, as a fact, without any particular example, constitutes legitimate debate. If this is Mr. McLean's idea of debate then I suspect he'll have a hard time building connections and making friends on the hill outside of his own party.