u/Slow-Giraffe

I'd like to give credit where credit is due to the NVRC. This morning's mad rush at 7am to sign up for swimming lessons went a lot smoother than last time, when the site completely crashed.

I was skeptical about the waiting room system, but it seemed to work well, and we managed to snag one of the very last spots for our toddler.

Of course everything still filled up within minutes, but at least the site seemed to work a lot better.

Our household doesn't follow politics super closely, nor would i consider us very partisan one way or another.

But what changed recently is the government's recent changes to the autism funding program. It's are going to hit our family especially hard.

As a result, we signed up for a mailing list and started getting communications from the Conservative MLA who is the critic of the ministry that's cutting the funding.

I wouldn't call ourselves strong supporters of the conservative party. But we've been super impressed by this particular MLA.

Her website is fresh. There are tons of easy ways to contact her. She constantly updates her constituents with her activities, how many meetings she attended, times when she spoke in the legilature, etc.

She organizes community events. She highlights issues that are relevant to her riding.

For example, they have an emergency room that routinely closes. It's front and centre in her last email.

Keep in mind, these are all things that are related directly to her riding and have nothing to do with North Van, yet I was still impressed by how she communicated that.

So then I started thinking about Susie Chant.

We wrote to her about the autism changes. She never replied.

We wrote again, and then received what I would describe as a "form" reply from her assistant that pretended like they cared but they really didn't.

Her website is old and outdated. Her accomplishments speak mostly to generic NDP party annoucements.

If you asked me what exactly has she done, or whether she cares, I'd say nothing and no.

Anyways, this isn't meant to be an essay that promotes one party over another.

Rather, that's just been my observations and so I thought I'd ask if others have experienced the same or different with their local MLA.