Your emails are like dust in the wind. Ain’t democracy great?
HoCStaffer- Correspondence to an MP.
First point about correspondence:
1) If you’re not from the riding we don’t care.
Your emails are like dust in the wind. Ain’t democracy great?
HoCStaffer- Correspondence to an MP.
First point about correspondence:
1) If you’re not from the riding we don’t care.
I live in the riding and I’ve emailed my Liberal MP several times on different issues of current broad concern, and never received so much as an acknowledgement.
Oh, colour me surprised.
Did you think you lived in a democracy?
MP stands for “meaningless position” in this system where the mps are clapping seals for the controlled autocrat who has the helm of the ship owned by others.
Now shut up and pay your taxes, pleb, and quit with the annoying emails.
One can try to influence things (be involved, volunteer to help at election time), one can try occasional contacts (as described in this post), one can say “it’s all broken” and step away, or one can shrug and say “it’s not on me, I didn’t vote for them”.
However one wants to look at it, it’ll be much easier if we lube up (or load up) now. And loading up Will likely get you shot so is not advised (lightly).
My MP is a Liberal, a Muslim, a lawyer and a cxnt.
Where is a Rob Ford Clone when you need 335?
There is some good comments and advice so no need to get all pissy about this.
1. Every email and call is tracked and with enough of them it moves the needle, the example was Covid.
“COVID was a little like this. The mass of emails against the measures moved the CPC’s position”
2. Staff know a lot and can be helpful for riding issues.
3. Don’t send links (nobody will watch/read them, mea culpa). Summarize key points and be brief.
4. Most important GO OUTSIDE!
L – Do M.P.’s H. of C. staff have an auto-pen, too? Or does the Prime Minister’s Office or his wife
have access to that? Jill B. would like to know.
The only reason to have Canada Post, as federal institution, is that citizen’s can send a letter to the House of Commons or the Senate without a stamp. Every physical letter is worth a 1,000 e-mails is the rumour.
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“Oh? Your reply was signed by the MP?
Lol. No it wasn’t. Staff have access to the “MP” accounts and send emails on the MP’s behalf with the MP’s signature.”
Usually on the bottom of letters like that (print mail with a signature, I don’t know if it’s been applied to emails) there would be some letters like AL:sw. This means it was signed in the name of Ashhat Liberal by the office worker Slimey Weasel.
My work communications most formal sends from head office will include “from the office of…” and will be from the underling’s account.
There is no way to verify email addresses, period.[1] If someone wanted to “move the needle” on an issue, it would be pretty trivial to get a list of people who live in a riding, and write a little program to create freemail accounts for each of them, use ChatGPT to write unique and very convincing emails in support/opposition to a particular issue, and send them at random times over a one week timeframe.
[1] Actually the technology exists but no one uses it, or understands it, so it’s not part of any commonly used email program.