Canadians vote for fake

Once elected politicians are faced with a choice; do they address real problems or do they spend their time on imaginary problems.  Real problems require real work and require real solutions.  Once applied the solution may or may not work.  You could be the hero or the goat.  Imaginary problems require only imaginary solutions and you can claim success each time.

Politicians generally share a lot of the same personality traits; none of them good.  One universal trait seems to be laziness.  So for the lazy politician the choice is clear.  The agenda will be nothing but imaginary problems.  Sometimes the imaginary problem is handed to you, like climate change.  Other times you must create your own imaginary problem which with the help of the media takes no real effort either.

Last week Alberta NDP Shadow minister for Health tried creating her own fake problem to solve.  For anyone not familiar with a parliamentary system parties that don’t form the government often assign shadow ministers.  Their job is to follow and criticize the actual minister.  Hoffman’s job is to criticize the health minister’s every move.  I find it somewhat ironic that the obese Hoffman is criticizing anyone on health issues but that is just me being a smart ass this morning and not the point of this post. The point is that instead of doing something constructive Hoffman is trying to create a fake issue that she demands the government spends money solving.

The fake issue is access to mRNA COVID Jabs.  Hoffman is upset that people in Lake Louise, a resort hamlet of 1000 people must drive 40 minutes to Banff if they want a COVID jab.  Apparently Hoffman is concerned that people might succumb to COVID during that 40 minutes and never make it to Banff.

This isn’t just a fake issue because COVID was a fake emergency.  This is a fake issue because there is zero demand for the COVID jabs in Alberta.  Albertans have figured out that these jabs are simply not worth the risk.  In the last 2 weeks only 19 people in a province of almost 5 million bothered to get a jab.

Sarah Hoffman could spend her time working on real problems but that is not how she, or most other politicians for that matter, rolls.  Sarah needs time for long lunches and expensive dinners.  This should upset the people who voted for her but it won’t.  And, that is exactly why you will never fix Canada.