Federal By-Election in Terrebonne
Kick the Liberals Out on April 13!
The monopoly-owned media, the cartel parties and the Liberal
government claim in one way or another that the problem in the
by-election in Terrebonne is the courageous initiative of the Longest
Ballot Project to present 42 candidates, all of whom stand for
reforming the electoral
system in a manner which empowers the people. The forces which
represent the status quo of power and privilege have a visceral fear
that the people will advance their initiatives to empower themselves.
In by-elections and general elections, Canadians and Quebeckers have been registering as candidates as part of the Longest Ballot Project to reiterate the demand to end the first-past-the-post method of counting votes, a reform promised in 2015 by the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau. Since 2021, thousands of people have supported the initiative -- in two federal elections, six federal by-elections and one Ontario provincial by-election. They have done so by running as candidates, signing nomination forms for Longest Ballot candidates, acting as official agents for these candidates as well as by voting for them. The abuses and attacks against the Longest Ballot Project are an attack on the thousands of people who desire change. But despite the attacks, the issue comes up in every election, and the Longest Ballot Project persists in raising the demand for electoral reform. It means that this demand is still on the agenda. It is the cartel parties and their candidates who must be held accountable for their actions, not the Longest Ballot Project.
The desperate demands of the cartel parties for state intervention to suppress the Longest Ballot Project, based on the claim that our democracy is in danger, are pathetic. Canadians and Quebeckers across the country are uniting to publicly demand an end to the first-past-the-post system. Does this endanger Canada's democracy or only the system of unrepresentative democracy which is so corrupted by those in positions of power and privilege that it discredits itself? Propaganda claiming that the Longest Ballot Project is the destroyer of democracy is a blatant ploy to prevent discussion and rejection of the Carney government's restructuring of the state to push his war agenda and massive payments to the rich for infrastructure which the rich demand.
How to find one's bearings in the difficult circumstances surrounding this election? Voters don't choose their candidates, nor the platform MPs should defend. They don't determine which problems should be solved. They are silenced, pressured to vote, to name just a few of these challenging conditions. So what can be done?
To defeat the Liberals in Terrebonne on April 13 would be a very good start. The Liberals are the governing party. They are the ones expropriating the properties of the people of Lanaudiere of which Terrebonne is a gateway, and denying them the right to say No!to furthering the private interests behind the Alto high-speed rail project. They are the ones in power implementing a war economy, supposedly for a strong Canada, in the name of a people who have no say. The way elections are held prevents the people from having a say unless, of course, they make a statement such as by defeating the Liberals in Terrebonne on April 13.
We cannot allow the concerns of the 114,000 residents of Terrebonne -- men, women, children and seniors -- regarding their land, their livelihoods, their health, their education and their social services to be swept under the rug by the Liberals in the name of a strong Canada. The Liberals act as they please, illegitimately and arrogantly. The Liberals' Alto high speed rail project is a very good example. It will cost the people in the corridors where it is being built much more than billions of dollars because it will dispossess them of their land, way of life and communities, as well as costing every family across the country $9,000, while sham consultations are held even though everything has already been decided. It is yet another solid reason why the Liberals deserve to be defeated in the by-election in Terrebonne on April 13.
Kick the Liberals Out of Terrebonne on April 13!
This article was published in
Volume 56 Number 15 - April 9, 2026
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/TML2026/Articles/T560151.HTM
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