David Christopherson, my member of parliament for Hamilton Centre (and someone I voted for in the last election) sent me a pamphlet with respect to his comments made in the House of Commons concerning honouring our fallen soldiers. Seems David received a letter from a “constituent” whose son was killed while serving our country and expressed anguish that the flag atop our Peace Tower would not be lowered to half mast. The Honorable Gordon O’Connor (Minister of National Defense) states that the government recognizes a tradition of 80 years, where the flag on the Peace Tower was lowered on Remembrance Day to commemorate all the deaths in all the wars and all the operations. Gordon goes on to say that the defense department, will lower the flag at their headquarters, at the original base where the soldier was killed and at the home base. Lastly he states, “We will stay with our policy”.

At the bottom of the pamphlet there is a spot to write your comments and mail to my house of commons MP, no postage required. You know how I love this stuff. So I wrote the following;

Quit wasting tax-payers money with issues of little or no interest to most Canadians. There are other more significant topic which have a greater impact on a larger majority of Canadians for discussion in the House of Commons. In my opinion, that is what is wrong with politics and government today.

Am I right, or am I right??