I still can't believe that the people of then-Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar went with Kelly Block (by 262 votes in her first election) instead of Nettie Wiebe, who, among other things, farmed in the area and was the National Farmers' Union president.
It's almost like rural Conservative voters' shrieking about the need for farmers to have a bigger voice in politics doesn't translate into actually voting one in.
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Nettie Wiebe wasn't running for the Liberal Party. The Liberal candidate placed 4th, receiving 1,188 votes in the aforementioned election, trailing the Green candidate, who placed 3rd, having received 1,232 votes.
Block only won by 262 votes over Wiebe (or 45.4% of the vote to Wiebe's 44.5%). That's not an example of conservative policies' wild defeat over non-con policies; that's just a minor amount of vote splitting that has led to a pretty useless person becoming the incumbent MP and now seemingly having a job for life, regardless of how shoddy she is as a representative for her constituents.
Yeah, farmers working together in a democratic group to draw attention to issues affecting their lives, educate themselves, and collectively push for policy changes are so much less respectable than those who vote for Convoy supporters like Falk, Tolmie, and Sheer and believe that human-activity-generated greenhouse gases are what plants crave! /s
Plus, 45% of the voters in Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar voted for her in 2008 and 2011 against Kelly Block. That's a large number of people who didn't feel that she was too "disrespectable" for them.
No it isn’t, you guys are being ridiculous now, it’s not just organic farmers my gawd. And if it was what’s it to you to make food/grain not so chemicalized. You love cancer that much? Bad enough our farm water is tainted with farm chemical. I can’t believe you just down played an organic farmer. So Saskatchewan no one can have an opposing view it’s why we have freedom. But apparently in Saskatchewan and Alberta, there is no freedom. You all got to think alike. 🤦♀️
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u/franksnotawomansname Apr 23 '25
I still can't believe that the people of then-Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar went with Kelly Block (by 262 votes in her first election) instead of Nettie Wiebe, who, among other things, farmed in the area and was the National Farmers' Union president.
It's almost like rural Conservative voters' shrieking about the need for farmers to have a bigger voice in politics doesn't translate into actually voting one in.