McQUARRIE – Are politicians at any level working for the public?
Who will be in City Hall for next four years?
AM I BEING an irrational cynic when I say that with few exceptions, I can’t think of a politician, at any level of government, that I trust or know with certainty they truly are working on our behalf?
It’s not an uncommon feeling and may in fact be more the norm than the exception these days and that bothers me.
As one reader put it to me a week or two ago, “When did the ideals born of a campaign disappear and when did they start forgetting that they work for us?”
Bill McQuarrie is a Kamloops entrepreneur. He can be contacted at billmcquarrie@gmail.com. He tweets @bafflegabbed.
ArmchairMayor.ca 
For me, the unsavory and self-serving side of the business of politics raised its head again when newly elected BC Liberal Leader, Andrew Wilkinson declared during an interview that the first thing on his agenda was, “…to drive the wedge between [NDP/BC Greens] and make sure they are more and more uncomfortable with each other and get ready for an election. That’s our job.” ”
For me, that says it all. Politics has become about holding power, and the people be damned. We get lots of platitudes in the election race, but it all falls by the wayside after the election when the time comes to reward the deep pocketed corporations that donated money to the campaigns.
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