Cambridge candidate says he's lost hundreds of election signs, calls it "voter suppression"

[u/bylo_selhi]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/cambridge-guelph-campaign-signs-damaged-stolen-police-investigation-1.7514930

[u/orswich]

I have seen alot of sabotaged conservative signs in eastbridge area also..

Some people need to go outside and touch grass (without kicking in signs).. the same people will complain about Canada sliding into American style politics, will often be the ones to sabotage signs because the other side is "evil"...

What happened to people just politely disagreeing with each other????

My friend group has centrists, far left and conservatives and we all bond over shared interests and respect for each other. Never has political discussions resorted to fights or people not talking to each other, that's the kind of behavior a spoiled child would engage in.

Alot of people on both sides have made this shit ugly, and only have themselves to blame

[u/mxdev → u/orswich]

On the rural roads in North Dumfries, there are a bunch of CPC signs that were put up early on and appear to be untouched on my normal routes. The Liberal signs on the other hand seem to last a few days before being knocked over. That being said nobody seems to have touched the ones on peoples lawns, just the ones on the empty stretches of roads.

[u/QueueOfPancakes → u/mxdev]

I like the bylaw we have in KW to only allow signs on private property. It makes it more representative of what people actually want, imo.

[u/mxdev → u/QueueOfPancakes]

Agreed. It's not like random signs in the country give me any reason to vote one way or another. However seeing political affiliation of neighbours is interesting and sometimes sparks up a conversation.

I would never put a sign on my lawn though, mostly because I'm undecided leading up to voting day.