By definition, your representative in Parliament is the person who won in your riding. Most Canadians, thanks to our first past the post electoral system, are represented by people they didn't vote for. That doesn't bother me much, I still feel free to write to or phone the office of whoever it is with comments and questions and complaints and so on. Generally they've responded pretty decently over the years, except for the lady in my current (Conservative) MP's office who counseled me to break the law. My firearm registrations came up for renewal shortly after the last federal election and I called to ask about the timing of possible changes in firearms registration legislation and whether I really needed to do anything. She told me I could ignore the renewal notice, which wasn't true then and in fact still isn't, failure to register is still a crime. And since the people who run the gun registry already knew about me and my firearms and an expired registration would probably raise a flag somewhere--though that database system appears to have been so badly done maybe it wouldn't--I didn't take her advice.
I have no voice.
