\u00a0 <\/span>A politician is the smartest person in the room when the room is empty, but he always knows what\u2019s best for us.<\/span><\/p>\nVoters face the prospect of another minority government with another election in 2 years.\u00a0 <\/span>Trudeau is likely to succeed in retaining minority power because conservatism in Canada\u2019s urban centers has not been embraced.\u00a0 <\/span>This exercise in democracy could have waited but the political arrogance of political operatives couldn\u2019t care less about the voter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nRegardless of who wins, the Canadian populace will not be well served, and we should be concerned.\u00a0 <\/span>Portuguese-Canadians do not get out to vote in sufficient numbers to ensure that politicians pay attention to our issues as a community.\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s time to reverse the trend and for candidates to prepare to run in the next election.<\/span><\/p>\nPlease exercise your right to vote but inform yourself about who best represents your vision for this country. Please vote. Be well.<\/span><\/p>\nManuel DaCosta\/MS<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enquanto nos preparamos para ir \u00e0s urnas e votar a 20 de setembro de 2021, muitos defendem que estas elei\u00e7\u00f5es n\u00e3o t\u00eam sentido por serem desnecess\u00e1rias.\u00a0 Avaliando os v\u00e1rios programas …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":85101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4502],"tags":[3979,13840,8566],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/SJ-Elections-cartoon-Port-e1631885076481.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}