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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...

entangling alliances with none

Thomas Jefferson

Change the way we govern ourselves

It is the duty of citizens

and natural persons

to create a government structure

of their choosing

people chose their governors

is the definition of democracy

It is not the duty

of our government

to change

how we govern ourselves

as was attempted

by the government

of British Columbia

in the shame

'Electoral Reform Commission'

whereby the sitting government

determined which 'reforms'

could be considered

Power exerted

by special interest groups

is the root of the dysfunction

of western democracies

Whereas

it creates an adversarial environment

of us against them

Whereas

its divide and conquer by the Elite

who have no special interest

other than remaining

The Elite

Whereas

a democratic system of governance

requires a broad base

of popular support

Whereas

achieving such a broad base

of popular support

is not possible

within our present

Westminster Parliamentary

system of governance

structured on adversarial

political parties

We must look outside

of our present system

We are fortunate in Canada

that a Citizen - Led Inquiry

into Canada's

COVID-19 Response

was organized

The National Citizen's Inquiry sessions

are held in various cities

open to the public

totally free of any government

or corporate sponsorship

and would be a good reference

when the people of Canada

wish to change the way we govern ourselves

Both the Northwest Territories

and Nunavut's governments

are based on consensus

rather than the adversarial

party model

we inherited

from our colonial masters

The Northwest Territories and Nunavut

have a no party system of governance

The territory operates by consensus government;

there are no political parties.

Approximately two weeks after an election,

the newly elected legislature meets

in a special session called

the Nunavut Leadership Forum

to select the Executive Council, or cabinet.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

are sworn in by the commissioner of Nunavut.

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When a plurality of like minded

independent MP's

organized as a political party

for the purpose

of changing the way

we govern ourselves

wins the majority of seats

in the House of Commons

the political party

will be asked

to form the government

by the Governor General

as is the custom

of the Westminster parliamentary system

of governance to which

Canadians presently assent

The political party

of independent MP's

would restructure

how we govern ourselves

so as to create a no party

system of governance

coupled with runoff elections

A 60/40 split in the final round

of a runoff election

would mean a divided community

A threshold of 80 percent

would solve the 60/40 split situation

though such an outcome

would be difficult to achieve

However

it could be that

at the completion

of each round of voting

the remaining candidates

would be attempting

to attract the supporters

of the candidates

eliminated

The final round of voting

between the last two candidates

would be a joint platform

created by the two candidates

that both candidates

believed their supporters

would accept

If the vote on the joint platform

exceeded 80 percent

there would be

a politically united constituency

both candidates would be elected

Yes we would have twice as many MP's

however they would represent

80 percent of the constituency

One MP could be in Ottawa

and one MP in the constituency

We could eliminate our Senate

-the last time - (GST implementation)-

our Senate preformed its 'constitutional' roll

- that being 'a chamber of sober second thought'

and returned the GST bill to the House of Commons

due to the huge resistance/dissatisfaction

by the people of Canada

Her Majesty - in defiance of the Senate -

instructed the Mulroney government

to appoint eight new senate seats

to be filled by the Conservative party's faithful

The newly created senate seats

'expired' upon the death of the senator

or retirement of the senator

Why are we paying for a 'rubber stamp' Senate?

Canada does not need a senate

If the joint platform

did not receive 80 percent

there would not be an elected MP

It would not be the responsibility

of government

or an agency

to organize a representative

It would be the sole responsibility

of the voters

in that constituency

and a demonstration

of a 'bottom up'

rather than

the present 'top down'

governance of Canada

Change the form of operating the banking system

Graham Towers was the first Governor

of the Bank of Canada

serving for twenty years

Towers was asked,

Will you tell me why a government

with power to create money,

should give that power away

to a private monopoly,

and then borrow

that which parliament can create itself,

back at interest,

to the point of national bankruptcy?

He replied,

If Parliament wants to change

the form of operating the banking system,

then certainly that is

within the power of Parliament.

Graham Towers

Therefore

we are on 'solid ground'

when we propose to

Change the form of operating

the banking system

From 1938 - when the Bank of Canada

was nationalized -

to 1970 it was the duty

of the Bank of Canada

to protect the value

of our currency

hold commercial banks'

cash reserves

provide over night credit

to commercial banks

and to fund government debt

by purchasing government securities

Whereas

The Bank of Canada Act was amended

in 1967 to allow the Bank

to accept interest bearing deposits

from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

other central banks

the IMF

the International Bank for

Reconstruction and Development

as well as other official international

financial organizations

Whereas

the amendment states that

the Bank of Canada

may accept interest bearing deposits

which the Bank of Canada chose to do

hence forcing the Bank

to operate 'as if'

it is a private central bank

creating profit to pay interest

on the aforesaid deposit accounts

Whereas

the Bank of Canada

no longer operates

as a public utility

as was the intention of the

Parliament of Canada

when all of the Bank's shares

not held by the Government

were purchased

by the Government in 1938

transforming the Bank of Canada

to the status of a public utility

It is noteworthy that our government

had the foresight to fully nationalize

the Bank of Canada

on the eve of the Second World War

thus avoiding interest payments

to private investors

known as war profiteers

Whereas

Our sovereign debt began to climb

after the Bank of Canada Act

was amended

Whereas

Canada granted imunity from prosecution

to the Bank for International Settlements

Therefore

We cannot trust our government

to manage the Bank of Canada

in our best interests

We need to retake control

of the Bank of Canada

Canadians do not often think of Canada

as a leader

we mostly think of Canada

as a follower

However in 1950

Canada lead the world

when the Bank of Canada

exited the Bretton Woods Agreement

with its pegged exchange rates

twenty-one years before

the Federal Reserve exited

the Bretton Woods Agreement

It would therefore not be unusual

for Canada

to once again

lead the world