Dearest reader,
As we glide upon the wake of our fair province’s most recent exercise in democracy, one finds it prudent to look briskly ahead to preparation for the next election, lest we descend into complacency upon a favourable result or else fall to disquieted acceptance upon an unfavourable one. Your own reaction will vary, but, regardless of your political allegiances, you must surely feel, as I do, that any conceivable body of leadership with which we may find ourselves saddled will continue to fail in sufficiently addressing the needs of the common student.
With this in mind, I therefore propose that our own Camosun College Student Society harness the fullest body of its now extensive political and organizational experience in the formation of a political party, the Camosun Party of British Columbia, whose platform will be the envy of student unions the nation over.
To begin, a mandate must be assembled on the basis of a significant tax increase for the wealthiest citizenry, the better to fund post-secondary institutions following a universal elimination of tuition. Subsequently, being a new player on the political stage, the party will need to solicit donations. Flattered by the attention with which the party has furnished them in their platform, the wealthiest local residents will then doubtless willingly provide. Indeed, in a world replete with conservativism, the only way to solicit change must be to step into that selfsame political arena in which the conservative forces themselves have always held dominion. Should all else fail, the overwhelming numbers of college-age voters who reliably frequent the polls will surely propel the party’s cause to victory.
Regardless of our success in preparing for the next election, I cannot doubt that we will bear the coming regime resultant of the one now passed with a quiet humility, as befits the hardworking student. For in the happiest of fortunes, dearest reader, you shall have to wait no more than four years before you too may leave the student’s plight behind and join the masses who go without considering such things.