Keen

"Independent dev & OSINT researcher. Digital democracy transparency, AI systems & verifiable tools. Building for truth. 🇨🇦"

[The Remanded @TheRemanded]

*** 93 MLAs, Two Years, No Action ***

Over the past two years, I have written to all 93 of British Columbia’s MLAs, more than once. With a snap election underway, I’m pausing to reflect on what came back.

When I started, I was excited. I believed what we’re all taught: if something is wrong, contact your MLA, and something will change. Looking back, maybe that was gullible.

My concerns involve freedom of information requests, policy, and above all election administration. Part of what I wrote came from personal grievance, and I won’t pretend otherwise. But at their core these are issues that, in my view, affect every British Columbian regardless of how they vote. That is why I took a non-partisan approach and wrote to every member, not only my own.

I wrote those concerns out in detail, respectfully and civilly. I still remember that moment: sitting at my computer for hours, personalizing each one and sending them one at a time.

One example stays with me. I asked to speak before the committee on democratic and electoral reform. I had waited and prepared for that moment for nearly a year. The answer was a “bi-partisan” no. The one thing the parties seemed to agree on was that they didn’t want to hear from the public. It was a stark reminder, especially after they had asked for public participation.

Now, as I think about who to vote for, I’m troubled by how fractured the choice feels. Every option comes with a warning. Don’t vote, and you can’t complain about the result.

Don’t vote, and you hand the current government another term. Vote for the Opposition, and you’re told you’re really voting Liberal. Vote Green, and you split the NDP vote. Vote CentreBC, OneBC, or any of the smaller parties, and you split the vote somewhere else. Vote for either of the top two parties, and you’re told you’re voting for the “uniparty.”

The message underneath all of it is the same: don’t vote your conscience. And then there are the black-pilled, who say don’t vote at all, because nothing will change no matter who wins. Whatever bubble of opinion you find yourself in, it starts to feel as though you don’t own your vote. Or maybe it’s simpler than that: every faction of the political spectrum is playing mind games to secure your vote, for power and authority over how our province is governed.

But the real issue isn’t who I vote for. It’s what came back. Out of 93 members, three replied: one with a note, one with a thank you, one with a deflection. My emails to the other 90 landed in the auto-reply bin: an automated acknowledgement, then silence. Not one member said, “You’re right, that’s a problem. Let’s solve it. What can I do, or what can we do together?”

Two years now. No action.

So what am I voting for, if I can’t find a voice in the legislature?

[The Remanded @TheRemanded]

“It seems like a lot of the politicians in Canada refuse accountability”

"We're the conduit for holding people to account. That's the job of the media: to hold power to account. I think the media in Canada has failed Canadians in that regard."

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@Bratt_world Tragedy , so sorry for everybody...

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

Scott Reid and Kory Teneycke agree with Mark Carney. You have to be worried about a Military invasion from U.S.

Trump is a REAL THREAT cozying up with Putin, Xi Jing Ping, Kim Jung Un

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@MarcNixon24 Somebody graded this episode...

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@TheRemanded Really!!!

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@JoeClemente1 Sharp looking couple...

[The Remanded @TheRemanded]

*** Knowing the Answer Isn't the Same as Getting It ***

No available solution is self-executing. Each runs through a gatekeeper the public can neither compel nor afford to reach.

Including the ones meant to fix it.

We Keep Going

https://t.co/Sim4RT6c0b

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@TheRemanded Excellent framing...

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@JoeClemente1 Is that a bamboo spoon ???

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@preta_6 Look at the gas gauge on your car , "far right" is one notch above half ???

[Umbra Mundi 🌎 @Umbra_Mundi]

Invest in Canada?

Capital doesn’t come here for the scenery. It comes because Canada is the stable on-ramp to the $32 trillion American market next door. Resources and “political stability” are nice features but market access is the product.

Picking a trade war with an economy 13× our size, while our investment thesis depends largely on privileged access to that same economy isn’t a strategy. It’s forgetting why the money showed up.

The Carnage Lieberal Government is playing a very dangerous game with our future. The EU and China are not the answer. We need to focus on a strong and prosperous North American alliance. So suck it up and get the deal done.

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@fordnation Please fix the roads in the GTA , this serves as a microcosm of any progress...

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@MissBess77 In the real world , of the last ten people I interacted with , not one had a good thing to say about it...

[Dan Dicks @DanDicksPFT]

Lake America EXPOSED THE DOUBLE STANDARD And Canada Discovered HISTORY MATTERS Overnight!!

They already renamed streets, squares, universities, parkways, a stop sign, the national anthem, and even a syrup bottle and called it reconciliation.

Then one executive order later, names suddenly became sacred heritage that must never be touched.

This video is about the double standard, not the water.

Ontario stays Ontario in Canada.

The point is the script flipped 180° and they hoped you wouldn’t notice.

Please like, comment, and share far and wide!!

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@canmericanized I'm thinking she is putting her faith in a class of Canadians that is slowly disappearing ???

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@EricRStPierre That's what I was thinking...

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@Gunblaze1969 We gonna need a bigger garbage bag...

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@Gunblaze1969 Well it ain't chicken doo doo... I would say a deer...

[Keen @gene_machine_1]

@MelissaLMRogers Half the lake belongs to Canada and the other to the US. What's it to us what ever the Americans call there half ??? Yes , a waste of money...