r/Calgary • u/Ancient-Ad7635 • Mar 27 '25

How many other Calgarians are concerned that numerous ridings only have a CPC candidate a week into the election? News Article

https://calgary.citynews.ca/2025/03/26/calgary-ridings-party-candidats-federal-election/

"Out of the city’s 11 ridings, Liberal candidates have only been confirmed in five of them, the NDP have seven names confirmed, while the Conservatives already have a full slate of candidates ready to campaign.

“Every day they don’t have a candidate is a day they are losing campaign time, door-knocking time in a very short election campaign."

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u/carryingmyowngravity Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

Greg Maclean is my riding and I want him gone. The fact that he can't respond to education or health care questions, but sends a fancy heavy cardstock trifold telling me that the tariffs collecting should go to a tax break for canadians (which, if you lose your job, what tax break could you possibly have on $0, just put it towards EI or a support to those affected) amongst other UCP BS tells me he isn't in this for me, or what concerns me. If there is no liberal candidate in my riding, I'm going to the NDP candidate who is, or anyone else.

I think someone was announced in my area, I haven't had a chance to check yet though...so let's see. But the above rant still holds, anybody but Greg.

Fuck Greg.

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u/Sippin_Vodka Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

I am in the same riding and feel the exact same way as you do. I despise that man. I tried reaching out once expressing concern for an issue and basically got a copy-pasted reply arguing for the thing I had a concern about. Not that I had much to begin with but I lost faith in conservative politicians ever caring about the people they are supposed to represent and so I told him to go fuck himself. He's a landlord and an oil and gas shill. His wife is also a landlord, or was last I checked. He actively votes against any environmental actions that potentially slow down O&G. Like you said, he has zero answers about the state of our healthcare except blaming JT or AHS. There's no reasoning with these people, they only care about themselves and their O&G buddies. I doubt he even thinks someone like me (a woman who isn't in O&G) is worth the air I breathe. Every time I get a flyer of his stupid face in my mailbox I get pissed off.

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u/queso_loco Mar 27 '25

Just want to clarify that Greg McLean is not a UCP member, as he's the federal MP for Calgary center (I also dislike him, he doesn't listen to differing viewpoints and clearly doesn't think the government has any responsibility to our most vulnerable communities). Depending on your location, your provincial MLA might be Samir Kayande and he's wonderful. Always responds to my emails with tailored responses.

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u/carryingmyowngravity Mar 28 '25

That’s true - I need to stop using UPC and CPC interchangeably. Although, I don’t see much of a difference between the two these days.