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What To Do Next
There are.many.(not
all) very good MLA's (concerned about people and things in reference to
them) in each Province in Canada. Feel free to contact your Member of Legislative
Assembly in the Province you are in. Get this information to him and ask
him some time after he's had a chance to digest it, what is he going to
do about it?
MLA contacts.–.links:.Newfoundland,
Nova
Scotia,
New Brunswick,
Ontario,
Quebec,
Manitoba,
British
Columbia, Prince
Edward Island, Saskatchewan,
Alberta,
Yukon
Territory, Northwest
Territories, Nunavut
Can be set up similarly:
STEP 1 — The people of each Province to petition
their Provincial Government to hold a referendum
asking the following question;
"Do you wish the people of 'whatever province
you're in where this is done' (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan,
Manitoba, etc.) to withdraw all powers of government over the people of
'whatever province you're in where this is done' from the Canadian central
government?"
STEP 2 — Once the referendum is successfully passed,
a constituent
assembly must be elected, with one delegate
from each provincial constituency. The constituent assembly will draw up
a constitution. The newly created nation comprising either one Province
or as many as all of them (again, whatever the people in each Province
decide) must be a true Federation,
giving well-defined powers to the people of each Province and/or region
(Western region, Ontario region, Quebec region, Atlantic region) and well-defined
Provincial powers for each Province.
STEP 3 — The constitution must be ratified
by a substantial majority and approved by the legislature
of each Province.
The people will choose the types
of laws and governments that they prefer. The people of Canada's individual
regions (Western, Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic) will be able to make their
own decisions through their own constituent assembly and their own legislatures.
Each region can become strong only through self-determination based on
the consent of the governed therein..Then
a proper federal union of all regions can take place, installing a
federal district (not.Ottawa again..p
l e a s e !..too many negatives), this time
in, say,.Winnipeg,
or whatever city Canadians now decide that it should be in. New buildings
will be constructed for the new and true federation's parliament.
A new nation is born.–.p
r o p e r l y !
Each Regional Assembly
could be made up of 12 say, 'Notables', popular competent people others
know and trust, as selected by citizens in say 12 areas of approximately
the same number of voters in each province. This would mean that each province
would be divided into 12 areas. Elections would be held in each area to
elect Notables to represent the people in each area and also their particular
province.
No parties would exist in this first
regional assembly, but each Notable must be a person who is at least 50
years of age and a property owner, i.e. farmer, businessman professional
or labourer, preferably one who has served, or is serving, in an elected
capacity in the Province of residence. The person so elected should be
financially solvent.
As Regional Assembly Members, they
will deal with all matters discussed with the other regions of Canada,
i.e. Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces.
The only full time paid "Regional
Assembly Member" will be the Chairman who will be elected by popular vote
from provinces within the region, and he will be the administrator of the
staff which will man the offices of the Regional Assembly and will cast
the deciding vote in case of a tie at Regional Assembly meetings.
The Notables to be elected for a
four year term, except for the first assembly when twenty-five percent,
or three from each province are elected for one year, three for two years,
three for three years and three for four years to provide a format for
an ever-revolving and responsive assembly, uncontrollable by organized
groups.
Regional Assembly members as stated
above are elected as individuals with a notable record of public and volunteer
service and as such will be able to vote their area and provincial wishes.
To help ensure.true
responsibility to the electorate, the term of each assembly member
including the chairman shall be a maximum of two four-year terms, with.fixed
dates for elections.and a simple, quick.Recall
System.initiated by each Notable's
own area (constituency).
Independence.(no
party politics where members can be coerced to 'vote the party' line and
'to hell with the people' that voted you in).must
exist for the member in the Provincial Government, so they can.vote
on issues on their own terms and according to the wishes of their electorate.
This would also carry over to federal sittings. By establishing fixed terms
for each government
, a member's (MLA) loyalty would be to his own constituents. Bills affecting
citizens could not be passed without a vote by those to be affected by
it.
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