The Editor,
Rona Ambrose, interim leader of the federal Conservative Party, summed up Canadian politics this week in one simple sentence: “I have instructed my MPs that the vote on assisted dying is a free vote.”
Should every vote not be a free vote?
MPs are elected to represent their constituents in Ottawa. This just proves that reality is MPs actually represent the party in the constituency and not the people.
Until MPs’ voting in Canada is always free, the country will remain a democracy on paper but not in reality.
Grant Crossley, Port Coquitlam
