It's like they've never done this before, and ditched without picking up their garbage from their constituents.
The campaign office is closed now. These are now "someone else's problems," much like every other problem that doesn't affect them.
When I lived in a townhouse condo property the conservatives used to just come and stick a bunch of their signs on the edge of the property without anyone asking for them to put them there. My spouse used to go yank them out and put them in the garbage.
Might explain why there were so many signs all over.
Entirely fitting that for a party based on short-term selfishness and FYIGM, both their supporters and their campaign staff would behave like this.
And that guy won too, off to a great start.
much like every other problem that doesn't affect them.
And a bunch that do, but they've shoved their own dicks in their ears so hard they can't hear anything but bribes.
I got a couple conservative signs still up in my district while all other parties have mostly taken down their signs, should I pick them up and recycle them or am I not legally allowed to remove or otherwise move them?
The Canada Elections Act does not regulate signs outside an election, so any "rules" about removal would be covered by regional legislation. It's your call; if you feel like hunting down the local legislation in hopes of making trouble for that candidate, all the power to you. If not, I'd say the signs are fair game to remove.
Good info, thanks! I'll call 311 first and see if they want to deal with it, otherwise I'll go take it down.
Do candidates usually retrieve their lawn signs? Ive never owned a house and never really thought about what happens to all those signs but i guess j assumed people just threw them out afterward. Or left them on their lawns for months.
I don't know how it is with federal elections, but I volunteered in Alberta's recent provincial one and the day after the election we were going around and collecting every single NDP sign we'd put out there first thing in the morning. There's a law about it, and we'd likely be wanting those signs for next election too.
There were very few yard signs for this provincial election, not sure why. But I'm seeing a lot of them scattered around as litter still. Maybe federal elections do it completely differently.
Yes, they normally pick them up within a couple days. Ours was picked up the next day.
Actually, most campaigns send out a collection team in the day after election day to take down the big sign as well as signs put up on public property. They also typically pick them up from lawns as requested.
Some will wait a day or two to celebrate the win but sign pickup
Most candidates keep the signs from one campaign to another. It takes a while for new signs to be printed at the beginning of a campaign. So, using old signs means getting signs up in the early days before your opponents and saving costs.
These aren't lawn signs that individual supporters put up on their properties, they're signs that the candidates put up on public boulevards
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