Hey,
Well we have Conservatives and Liberals like America has Democrats and Rebublicans. Our Conservatives BARELY have the majority vote and were currently in a "minority government" meaning nothing really gets done b/c the leading party needs to get along and work WITH the "enemy"/opposition parties to get th policies voted on for our bills/upcoming laws.
I'm voting Liberal this fall as our new Prime Minister to be, Michael Ignatieff, will challenge our current leader, Steven Harper, to an election, one that Steven says is not what Canadians wanted. Funny, I was never asked. :P
If you aren't sure which party to vote for I recomend the "Red Team" (Liberals) this fall for federal election. I went down to a local Liberal meeting last Friday night. Mr. Ignatieff showed up and Sukh Dalliwal was also there, the local Surrey BC Liberal rep.
Big issues as a Canadian citizen for me include:
-Lumber going south to America w/o the work of processing them into boards, meaning the taxable hours of the worker are either Canadian workers or American workers, which city gets that guy's pay cheque, which government gets the taxes towards it's country? Currently the Conservatives are too eager to please their American masters to care for their elected Canadians who are ALSO looking for good family supporting jobs. A bribe from down south ain't worth the taxes collected from the forrests of British Columbia (unless you can't steal the public tax money and the private bribes are only a briefcase click away).
(but to be fair, it's just speculation on the bribe part, I only HOPE they are taking the bribes for his sake! w/o them he's merely a fool looking "up" the the wrong boss....supposed to be your voters!)
-Lack of public voice in politics and lack of public broadcast of CPAC (the parliament chhannel) for everyone. First off, this channel could be used for a GOOD Spike tv alternative. I doubt everyone wants 12 hours/day of CSI (could be wrong tho). Moving our politics to a bit torrent online episodes would be nice. On top of showing what's going on in Ottawa from coast to coast, I'd like to see more online discussion, votes, and comments www.slashdot.org style. If Canada can adopt a slashdot framework we'd be far better off then, our, .....??? Oh ya, they don't want to HEAR the people they are SUPPOSED to represent. It slows down polluting businesses from wrecking the environment for pursuit of resources.
I'd love to see votable dollars, say 20% of taxes the citizen generates go towards the choice of THAT citizen, record the vote online for others to see (w/o personal info online, just their vote choice for stats Canada). This could stop corporate fraud as the business man often knows better then a group of corrupt beurocrats wasting the other 80% as per usual. NOW we'd be able to see where all the taxes go, vote on how much they put it where we wouldn't/didn't, and elect someone who votes alongside fellow Canadians (or defends their position saying all citizens voted their 20% to education so they had to fill in the gaps /w some of the 80%, least it's a REAL voice for honest voting tax payers.)
Voting online for people who care should be priority also. It's nice to vote some guy in who promises to change things but I'd like to see what society votes for. Great example here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_C-61_(39th_Canadian_Parliament,_2nd_Session)
"Bill C-61, An Act to amend the Copyright Act, was a bill tabled in 2008 during the second session of the 39th Canadian Parliament by Minister of Industry Jim Prentice. The bill died on the order paper when the 39th Parliament was dissolved prematurely and an election was called by the Governor General Michaëlle Jean at Prime Minister Stephen Harper's request on September 7, 2008.[1] The Conservative Party of Canada promised in its 2008 election platform to re-introduce a bill containing the content of C-61 if re-elected.[2]"
So Steven Harper wants to re-introduce this American copywrong bill against the wishes of the majority of Canadian wishes/lifestyles. I still believe they deserve a vote as they were elected but it's akin to the paper trail for voting and how it prevents (some) fraud at election time. By knowing how many votes are counted and whom everyone votes for we know they deserve to be there, well collecting real time, online, Canadian Linux servers /w open source software AND techs paid by our Canadian government to secure tthe system(s) we could have a REAL voice alongside our ministers of parliament.
What's the point of gathering all this public info about how our citizens would want proposed laws/bills to go into law we can see how close/far our referee's are from the Canadian players on the ice. In a sense, they can be guided on new laws and have a good idea of how Canadians want THEIR system to run.
So, to me, it's the same as "open Source Government", I got help from a friend setting up www.opensourceg.com for such ideas to gather but I'm no coder and couldn't secure the vote(s) of Canadians so any polls WOULD be rigged by hackers /w agendas (prob paid by corps for profit, usually the case, even lobbyists as America is infected with atm).
Anyone who wants to help set something like that up is welcome to contact me and we'll get her going. One great thing is this idea doesn't NEED to be "voted into law" just to vote alongside politicians. It's perfecty legal and long as there is a link saying "votes are for stats only and can be rigged to support ANY side" it should be fine.
But when 95% of Canadians don't want to be sued like Americans nor do they want their Internet cut off for downloading songs, then our politicians put such laws into play neglecting our opinions and voices, they need to be called on their bull shit FOR the Canadian way of life to be progressive, not regressive like our southern brothers (collage kids being sued for downloading songs is unrealistic, espicially since it's not 1 dollar per song too!)
The RIAA/MPAA music/movies copywrong groups represent companies like Sony, Warner Brothers and the like to protect their works. Understandable but then you get stuff like this:
http://torrentfreak.com/sony-music-office-raided-090907/
Basically says Sony had released an artist's work without permission. The Latin artist had to call the police on Sony to get the cd album (6000 of them) back. You can BET that THEY aen't going to be sued for 200,000 per album EXACTLY LIKE THEY DO to people who infringe "THEIR" works... ;)
So it's a shame that corporations of under 10 people (Sony execs for example, the rest of the workers have no REAL say), these 10 people can control MILLIONS by buying themselves whatever laws they wish. 10 people, 30,000,000 Canadians or 304,059,724 Americans (July 2008 stat).
THIS is why we need voice in our own politics. Why vote for someone to pretend to vote in your corner when you can do that AND vote your OWN VOTE online and THEN see how far off they are from Canadian/American/World citizens voices (like 95% against our wishes...lol)
Some political things on my mind, enjoy. :D
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