Letters March 8: Pols on speed dial

'(politicians) make us feel cynical and helpless about shaping our society, and make it easy to retreat into the comfort of our lives beyond politics, leaving politicians to claim that our silence is assent.
We need to resist this temptation to withdraw. This is the time to put our MPs and MPPs on speed dial and to call them whenever we want to criticize or affect their decisions.'

Or 'We get the government we deserve.....' If we Canadians could just tear ourselves
away from the 'Trump Show' and give our own situation a little more attention, we might get more respect from our pols. BC'ers are about to go to the polls, and you wouldn't know there is an election, except for the TV ads by our suddenly cash flush ruling party.

If you think it's the same old rhetoric, telling us what we want to hear, using our own money to bribe us, never expecting to have to follow through, perhaps it's because it is because we are so easy to distract from the facts.