The Duff Conacher Democratic Renewal Program

Duff Conacher and Democracy Watch have been the most effective person and organization for the securing of citizen rights and good practices in Canadian government. 

We don't have to do this work over again - 'reinvent the wheel'. They are the best and I support their work, research and recommendations. 

I also have ideas about how to implement from of these ideas using traditional Canadian governance methods.

BIO

Duff Conacher is an internationally recognized leader in the area of
democratic reform and government accountability. He is a former
Ralph Nader's Raider, co-author of Canada Firsts and author of More
Canada Firsts (both best-sellers), and has worked as a researcher,
community organizer and educator, legal intern and consultant.

A graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, he has a
long-standing interest in democratic process and corporate
responsibility issues and is the Founder of Democracy Watch, was its
Coordinator for 18 years, and is now an active Board member.

He led Democracy Watch and its four nation-wide coalitions to win more
changes to laws, regulations and government policies than any other
citizen advocacy group in Canada between 1993 and 2011 -- more than 110

changes in total, many of them world-leading. He also led Democracy Watch

to win precedent-setting good government court cases, and regular national

media coverage.

He is the author of three annual good government reports on Canada

for Global Integrity. Duff has also designed and delivered dozens of

civics education and organizational development workshops over the

past 18 years as Assistant Coordinator of Democracy Education Network.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/duff-conacher/

20 Steps towards a Modern, Working Democracy

Democracy Watch's mandate, 20 Steps towards a Modern, Working Democracy (set out below) proposes changes that all governments in Canada should enact (according to their respective powers) to ensure that Canadian citizens have a greater and more meaningful role in government and corporate decision-making in Canada.

Democracy Watch's "20 Steps" mandate is based upon Democracy Watch's Definition of a Democratic Society.

NOTE - Mr. Conacher's name and the material from the Democracy Watch website is used with his permission.

The Senator Herb Sparrow Soil Sustainability Program

Senator Sparrow devoted his life to the service of his country and to the challenges of agriculture. His work on soil sustainability was groundbreaking and we intend to carry it forward to honour another Great Canadian and friend of my campaign as part of the 'Sustainability in all things' Program.

We are honoured that Sen. Sparrow consented to us using his name and career work as part of our plan for a better Canada in the future.

From The Battlefords News-Optimist

http://www.newsoptimist.ca/article/20120911/BATTLEFORD0101/309119996/-1/battleford/independent-thinker-lauded-by-peers

Soil Conservation
During the 1980s Sparrow concentrated his efforts on a senate committee report on soil conservation. Soil at Risk became a seminal work, with such impact as to literally change the way people farm on the prairies and around the world. There used to be 45 per cent of crop land in summer fallow each year, now that number is five per cent, he notes.

"The issue was so serious, I would take ten years of my life to do this," he recalls.

The report, which at 50,000 copies has had a print run ten times greater than the threshold for a Canadian bestseller, is still being requested. Recently, another 400 were sent to Australia.

His North Battleford office, located close by to KFC, is festooned with accolades for that work. The short list of the honours include an honorary doctorate from McGill University, a medal from the United Nations for conservation, citations for various halls of fame and the H.R. MacMillan Laureate. That final honour, given to Sparrow in 1989, is awarded to the Canadian who has given the greatest contribution to Canadian agriculture in the past five years. It is awarded only twice a decade.

The Doctor Neal Stoskopf Global Food Development Project -

Doctor Stoskopf is another Canadian of genius who has expressed his support and encouragement for The Plan of Hope and has agreed to permit us to use his name as a sign of that support.

Helping the Nations of the World Feed Themselves and Each Other

- Sustainability in Agricultural Practices -  *Sustainability in ALL Things*

http://www.alumni.uoguelph.ca/stay/stay_profile_stoskopf.shtml

"For more than 50 years, Dr. Neal Stoskopf has been an exemplary educator, mentor, researcher and volunteer both locally and internationally.

Dr. Stoskopf’s innovative research has been presented in over 40 papers and publications. He has been invited to speak at agricultural meetings, service clubs, high schools, and to industry. Through his compelling speeches on important issues such as energy, food supply, and climate change, he has aided in recruitment efforts and helped attract students to the University.

After retirement, Dr. Stoskopf pursued his passion for global agriculture and became an international volunteer. He has undertaken assignments in China, the Philippines, Bolivia and Bulgaria as a Volunteer Advisor teaching sustainable agricultural practices. Dr. Stoskopf has made an outstanding humanitarian contribution, providing hope for people living in unspeakably poor conditions."

 The University of Guelph Alumni Association named Neal Stoskopf as the recipient of the Alumnus of Honour Award in 2009. 

NOTE - Neal is also a very good friend to me which is a great benefit that enriches my perspective.   Oddly enough one of the things we have in common is visual impairment.  I was blind and had my eyesight surgically restored [most of it] and Neal also sees more than most with his limited eyesight.  We also share experience in China and we met at church.

More links for Doctor Neal Stoskopf - A Great Canadian
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Major-General Lewis Wharton MacKenzie National Security and Defense Plan

Retired Canadian General Lewis MacKenzie knows what I know. Canada is essentially defenseless at this point. Our Armed Forces are insignificant in today's world of war and our armaments are antiquated and not adequate to national defense.

I propose a significant increase in the numbers of our armed forces personnel – doubling the number in ten years and thereby providing jobs, training and much needed service to the nation and people.

This would be accompanied by a smorgasbord of up-to-date equipment and technology. We will then be better equipped to be good Allies and Friends and more formidable enemies.

See Gen. Mackenzie and hear him in his own words at the link below as he appeals for Reason in the analysis and practice of our national defense needs. He is concerned and his concern is based upon science and math, not upon ideology and greed like those in the halls of power.  He wants Canada and Canadians to be safe.  This is his duty and it is the duty of every citizen.

http://www.ideacityonline.com/talks/lewis-mackenzie-on-canadas-military-role-in-the-world/..

Here's a link to a brief article about how I view our current state of affairs in the area of national defense and security under the Harper Government.

“...we have no final plans for air defense, no follow through with Northern deployment, no maintenance of the size of force we employ and deploy, no rescue helicopters, no usable [or reusable!] submarines, no shallow water rescue and defense Navy and Coast Guard boats – high speed with a shallow displacement and heavily weaponed for fiords, narrows, the North. 

There is no comprehensive and systematic fresh and salt water rescue and defense planning, emergency planning or Plan period. What exactly are we getting for the huge and ballooning military budget?”

Highways to Nowhere – Stephen Harper's Policy Plan for Canada

“CANADA – Together we are strong and safe.”

The MacDonald-Cartier National Unity Program – Strength in Diversity.

John A. MacDonald and George-Etienne Cartier found common ground that permitted unified action and Union for CANADA. All that followed depended upon finding that initial common ground. Otherwise there could have been no Confederation, no National Dream, no railroad from coast to coast, no CANADA.  

This all came about because of the pressures of perceived threats from without.  The United States of America was in the midst of a violent civil war and their expansionist policies made the Colony of Canada seem like a sensible next target for their growing land base. The War of 1812 was still remembered by some.

In the 21st Century we find ourselves again facing grim truths that threaten our national existence and even our planet. We need to dig deep into the sources of Canadian unity – stop fighting and demanding more when what is needed is a spirit of generosity. 

We need to recognize that 34 million people is a small population in the global community. China graduated more that 34 million engineers last year. If we are going to compete successfully we are more likely to succeed together rather than by fighting with and against one another.

“CANADA – Together we are strong!”

Building upon the programs, mind-set and values that first knit CANADA together in 1867 we can create a deeper unity that is democratic, prosperous and independent. This is an integral element in this Plan of Hope.

Watch for more information about the MacDonald-Cartier National Unity Program in coming days.

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The Premier Peter Lougheed Principle of Legislative Democracy

The Peter Lougheed Principle for Legislative Action

Here is a great idea for the nurture and maintenance of our democracy from the former Premier of Alberta who was recently voted CANADA's best Premier in the past forty years.  He claims it has been the key to the success of the Progressive Conservative Party in Alberta which started with him and continues today with Premier Alison Redford.

"Caucus overrides Cabinet in all cases and with all pieces of legislation.  Always!"

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Rejuvenate the Planet - The James Miller Williams Industrial Development Plan

We can, should and must Rejuvenate the Planet - and - we should profit and produce wealth in the process.  Goodwill towards the Planet will pay great dividends in our children's future.  There is far more to wealth than money.

The James Miller Williams Industrial Development Plan

James Miller Williams is a largely unknown Canadian who profoundly affected all of us.  He is credited with inventing the petroleum industry, natural gas and petrochemical industries, the asphalt industries [paving, roofing, marine].  

Williams also helped build the first Canadian railways and rolling stock, the first insurance  companies and banks and the first roads.  He even paved the first road in North America at Hamilton, Ontario where he lived.  He invented many of the things that have made the 20th Century possible.  We need this kind of creative industrial thinking for the 21st Century that is Sustainable in every way. 

As a Liberal MPP for Hamilton in 1867-79 my great-grandfather was also a "Father of Confederation".  This is the kind of person who made Canada great.  As in the time of Sir Walter Scott we are in need of "...people of daring resolve."

This Plan Combines Environmentalism and Industrial Creativity


- Let's begin with the oceans.  If humanity is to survive for the next hundred or two hundred years then it is imperative that we clean up the frightful Mess in the global ocean systems.  I have a plan to begin this process by harvesting the vast fortune in plastic that is floating in the enormous ocean currents.  
 

There are now simple methods available to tuRn plastic back into petroleum and this can create and sustain at least one new global industry.  But more likely several derivative industries will develop in the 'wake' of this trans-ocean enterprise. 

There are great fortunes floating in the oceans and all we have to do is harvest them...like fish or lobsters.  This will require new ocean technologies, new boats and storage facilities on vessels and on shore.

Marine debris into money

Plastic into oil

also see this - 


Waste to Energy Directory 


Reforestation of the Earth Plan  - follow link


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Sustainability Treaties

We need to start making Sustainability Treaties with one another and with other nations.  This new idea will help bring the global stewardship Problem into focus.

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The Sustainable Economics Plan - follow link

Success with Less - follow link

We can achieve much more with much less if we learn to be more economical.  Economy USED to mean being careful with resources.  More recently it has come to mean rip, use, destroy and consume everything as fast as possible and ignore the resultant messes and shortages.  If we intend to leave any kind of safe and useful world for our families then we must be good environmental and economic stewards. 

"Don't use it up.  Use it gently."

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Micro-Agriculture and Food Security

The National Locally Grown Food Program  

-   a step towards independent food production which is a national security matter as well as  a health issue.

Food, Water and Resource Security Measures - Let's make it our goal to provide fresh locally grown food for Canadians in all communities in Canada.  We have the know-how and we need a plan that gets it done.  Micro-agriculture will helps solve some of this puzzle and this can be reinforced by immigration policy that welcomes third world farmers who can feed us on site rather than from the other side of the globe.  we have to reduce our use of petroleum and this is one way to begin.  
This will launch yet another industry that will go global in time.  

"Canada is the new California when it comes to world changing ideas."

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"Good government provides a framework for people and businesses to survive and  succeed and to create employment and tax earnings for the nation. Creative government that can see the way forward in these areas is good government in this highly competitive age of technology and data."
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Stephen Harper said... BUT I say...

Stephen Harper has said, "When I get through with Canada Canadians will not recognize it."

This is already happening and a growing throng of Canadians are not happy with the results. The rest of the world hardly recognizes this Canada either.  Mr. Harper has kept his word to Canadians. 

BUT I say, "When WE get through with this country you WILL recognize it.  It will resemble the Canada about which you have dreamed and for which you have laboured and invested and sacrificed.

That Canada will be a place of justice with compassion & prosperity with responsibility.  It will be a world environmental leader for the 21st Century with sparkling clean waters to drink, swim in or fish from - clean water from coast to coast to coast.  This Canada will be for ALL Canadians." 

In the end even Stephen Harper will be glad that he was defeated and he will thank us for our work and courage in the face of his belligerence and betrayal.  Then he will also help us build this Canadian Dream upon the foundations we have inherited.  

This is the greatest nation in human history because our people have done some things right over the long history of our democracy.  Now we have the opportunity to make it even more right...far more just and compassionate, welcoming and rewarding.  

Poor Steve simply does not know what to do - otherwise he might just do it.  But as someone has said, "Some people - they don't know and you can't tell them."
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Sustainability in ALL Things

Sustainability in ALL things is a goal of this Plan of Hope

Sustainability Treaties
 
We need to start making Sustainability Treaties with one another and with other nations.  This new idea will help bring the global stewardship Problem into focus.

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The Sustainable Economics Plan

 

Success with Less

 
We can achieve much more with much less if we learn to be more economical.  Economy USED to mean being careful with resources.  More recently it has come to mean rip, use, destroy and consume everything as fast as possible and ignore the resultant messes and shortages.  If we intend to leave any kind of safe and useful world for our families then we must be good environmental and economic stewards. 
  
                         "Don't use it up.  Use it gently."
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The Wealthy Society in the 21st Century Economy

Please follow this link...

These are some of the Treasures that will make Canada The Wealthy Society in the 21st Century.  It's far more than money and personal ownership and enhances these things through national policy and goodwill towards all Canadians.


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The Wealthy Society – Tools for Responsible Citizenship

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The John George Diefenbaker Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Plan

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               A Governing Principle of this Plan

All People are Equal 

Equal Rights for Children - see above - CHILDREN 'are' PEOPLE

Justice with Compassion - governing principle for our society.  "The Just and Compassionate Society."

• Housing and Education over Policing and Prisons
• Compassion and Justice lead to Law and Order 

  Schools rather than Prisons –  preventative crime stopping

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 Science and Math rather than Ideology and Fear

- Fearless government in a time of Global Crisis!
  
- Real solutions to a Crisis of historic proportion in a time of unprecedented threats and opportunities.

“Think Global, Act Local” Whole Earth Catalog

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 Value The People Above All – modern Human Rights based democratic values and 'citizen based democracy'

Do not continue to criminalize citizens, but rather civilize our people through education, culture, and via opportunities in education and employment, in business and government.  

"All Canadians own a share in the CANADA franchise." 

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   The Just and Compassionate Society 

          "Civilize.  Don't criminalize."

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The Flora Isabel MacDonald National Security and Armed Forces Plan

Flora MacDonald was Canada's first woman foreign minister the recipient of the Lester Pearson Medal of Peace.


Enhanced National and International Security Plan

 - Two new Northern bases for the Armed Forces with a strong First Nations component and permanent land access roads.  This will prove sovereign ownership while opening the North for industry, commerce, travel and tourism, investment, development and preservation and further integration of Northern Canada into the national fabric.  

"We stand on guard for thee!"

PLUS - A comprehensive renewal of the Armed Forces, RCMP, CSIS and all security forces internal and external - to deploy for a unified assault on the looming environmental catastrophe and the national security implications of that threat – including Security Needs Assessment.

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 Strengthened Arctic Sovereignty with an expanded First Nations role 

- expanded and enhanced Northern [First Nations] Rangers Corps 

- two new integrated northern military bases with access by road, air and sea 


...AND for our brave veterans of national service in the military and elsewhere...


*  The Senator Roméo Dallaire Veterans of Foreign Conflicts and Foreign Service Priority Support Program - including - Members of the Armed Forces, diplomats, intelligence personnel, security personnel and families. Priceless!  Named after the Hero of Rwanda and Hotel Rwanda who is a voice for Veterans Rights in the Canadian Parliament.


The current conditions in which our vets live are shameful and we need to start living without this kind of shame.  Naming a highway after our heroes is not enough.

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- More Food for Thought -

"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." ~ Martin Luther King Jr

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Let us always remember that "war is the last stage of diplomacy."  It is NOT a viable and sustainable economic driver.

Peace Pays – The Peace Based Economy  - follow link

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Protect and Restore the Environment - The David Suzuki Environmental Plan

Protect and Restore the Environment

The David Suzuki Environmental Plan
 
Sustainability in ALL things is the goal of this Plan that we would like to call “The David Suzuki Plan” after Canada's distinguished environmental scientist. 

• Sustainability is the capacity to endure. In ecology, the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems. For humans, sustainability is the potential for long-term maintenance of well-being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions. [Wikipedia - Sustainability]
• At the 2005 World Summit it was noted that this requires the reconciliation of environmental, social and economic demands – the “three pillars” of sustainability. [Wikipedia – Sustainability]

 Restore and Protect the Environment Plan

The Dr. David Schindler Fresh Water Renewal Plan 
- to restore and wisely manage all of Canada's fresh water resources

Dr. Schindler has done long-term studies of fresh water and how to restore fouled resources.  "This long-term study of freshwater is part of Schindler's large body of scientific work which has influenced freshwater management policies including the regulation of toxins and the limitation of eutrophication (excessive algal blooms) and acid rain in Canada, the USA and Europe." 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schindler

Rejuvenate the Planet 
- Let's begin with the oceans.  If humanity is to survive for the next hundred or two hundred years then it is imperative that we clean up the frightful Mess in the global ocean systems.  I have a plan to begin this process by harvesting the vast fortune in plastic that is floating in the enormous ocean currents.  
There are now simple methods available to tuRn plastic back into petroleum and this can create and sustain at least one new global industry.  But more likely several derivative industries will develop in the 'wake' of this trans-ocean enterprise. 

Marine debris

Plastic into oil

also see this - 


Waste to Energy Directory 

Reforestation of the Earth Plan 


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Sustainability Treaties
We need to start making Sustainability Treaties with one another and with other nations.  This new idea will help bring the global stewardship Problem into focus.

Also see this...

Green [R-]Evolution in all things

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Mini Royal Commissions

 - - - more Democratic Administrative Renewal Policy Ideas - - -

Mini Royal Commissions - This is a new idea for Canadian governance practices that is based upon a time honoured tradition of inquiries in advance of change in our society and policy.  In this Information Age everything must happen swiftly [Twitter format].  So I propose that we implement this new shorter version of the Royal Commission within the scope of the duties of the Canadian Senate to renew and re-engineer the functions of this time honoured Institution of Canadian Democracy.

*  These twelve to sixteen week processes of inquiry will strengthen our democracy for generations to come through renewed practices of inclusion and distribution of powers, with constant attention to the Will of the Canadian People in matters of controversy; and by the widening of citizen participation via communication technologies and decentralized and multi-site hearings.  This democratizing format and methodology has been used by the TVO program The Agenda with Steve Paikin in their Agenda on the Road sessions across Ontario.

*  This is a new idea that we will exploit in order to promote and expand democratic governance practices in Canada.  This will begin in government and employ Quantum Age technologies and methods, access, speed, responsiveness and ‘Thrift in all Things’.

*  Things happen very fast these days in the Twitterverse!  ***


Some Priorities for Mini Royal Commission inquiries.

- Mini Royal Commission on Sustainability - 16 weeks

-  Mini Royal Commission on the Status of Children - 16 weeks

- Mini Royal Commission on The Environment - 16 weeks

- Mini Royal Commission on the Legalization or Decriminalization of Marijuana as a source of tax revenue
          - 12 - 16 weeks in ten locations 
          - Senate Justice Committee

- Mini Royal Commission on Safe Foods - production and delivery - 16 weeks ***

- Mini Royal Commission on Safe Water - Fresh water restoration and stewardship - 12 weeks

- Mini Royal Commission on Integrity in Government - 10 weeks 
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 - - - Canada - Standing alone!  Working together! - - -

Democratic Administrative Renewal Policies

The Stanley Howard Knowles Democratic Renewal in House of Commons and Senate as well as in society Plan.


- Decentralization of powers that have been consolidated into the PMO. Redistribute these powers across representatives [MPs], committees and so forth.

- The wide distribution of powers insures that democracy will thrive and endure for many generations.

- Mini Royal Commissions
  
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

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*** Addressing the democratic deficit in Canada with Competence, Justice and Compassion

• Comprehensive renewal of the Armed Forces, RCMP, CSIS and all security forces internal and external - to deploy for a unified assault on the looming environmental catastrophe and the national security implications of that threat – including Security Needs Assessment
• Federal Bureaucrat Job Security Policy - to protect against political tampering and manipulation of The Public Service, CEOs, CFOs and employees of national Enterprises and Crown Corporations - respect and job security
• The Council of Canadians Veteran Canadian Engagement Program - providing a framework and a compelling sense of Purpose for those fifty years of age and older who choose to enroll - "Add value to Canada and years to your life!"
• Review of all Law with an eye to Sustainably and other needed changes – like Equal Rights for children as an example
• Democracy in the Schools Program - to promote democratic Citizenship - which is a Federal duty
• Full Employment with Livable Wages - for workers and with an abundance of opportunities for profit for businesses and investors - income tax attachment incentive program - funded by income taxes
• Strategic Support for International Initiatives [Pods] Program - funded with existing business taxes
• Government Accountability to Citizens Program as in Constitution and Charter - Ombudsperson
• New Processes of Self Government to enlarge the democratic community
• The Duff Conacher Democratic Renewal Program
  
  
  
  

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  The Peter Lougheed Principle for legislative action

  
  Here is a great idea for the nurture and maintenance of our democracy from the former Premier of Alberta who was recently voted CANADA's best Premier in the past forty years.  He claims it has been the key to the success of the Progressive Conservative Party in Alberta which started with him and continues today with Premier Alison Redford.
  

  
  

  "Caucus overrides Cabinet in all cases and with all pieces of legislation.  Always!"

  
  

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Green [R-]Evolution in all things

Imagine a Canada with sparkling and clean fresh waters from coast to coast to coast - for drinking, swimming, fishing, and for environmental renewal and with great forests to capture CO2 and cool the Earth.  

This is the legacy we want to leave for our children and generations of Canadians to follow.  This will be our example to the world and this will be Canadian Sustainability leadership in action.  

Together we can do this and profit in the process by creating new industries and opportunities.  Vision reveals opportunities!

This will all be part of - The David Suzuki Environmental Sustainability Act

* Fresh Water Renewal Program - Doctor David Schindler Recovery Plan - most precious resource - $10 million x 5 years

* Fresh Water Stewardship Bill - for renewal, caring, sharing.  Fresh water will be a key resource in this era - more valuable than gold or diamonds or oil - recovering this resource is critical for our security and economy. Canada possesses about 23% of the global fresh water supply and this is being threatened by pollutants with little potable water remaining at this point. It is our duty to preserve and protect this resource - to renew and restore it for human and economic reasons.

* Environmental Clean-up Incentive for the tar oil sands, and for mining, all kinds of extraction processes, agriculture, urbanization, et cetera [more opportunity for R&D and profit for Canadians and Canada based companies - incentives to sustainable industry]

* Environmental Sustainability Incentives Program  with Dr. David Schindler as Director

* National Fresh  Water Policy  - The Dr. David Schindler Act. - $20 million

* Renewal of Forests for Environmental Leadership & Major Forest Replanting and Renewal Program - Canada’s Boreal, rain forests and hardwood forests, Brazil’s Amazonian forest. etc.

* The Reforestation of the Earth Program with United Nations and Global First Nations collaboration

* Great Rivers Recovery Program - national and international with Partners in business and government

* Ground Water  Preservation and Safety Commission - water science serving Canada and Canadians

* Seed Diversity Guarantee Program and Seed Bank - towards Sustainable Crops




Categories of Action

- Soil Management - toxic soil education program and funding for soil sustainability


- Fresh Water Renewal Program - including the Great Lakes

- Fisheries

- Wildlife and Fauna

- Lakes, Rivers, Groundwater, Aquifers and so on

- Air

- Forests

- Diversity in regions and geography

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The New Economy

- Creating Wealth through Sustainability

- A Modern and Sustainable Economy

* Peace based economy

* New National Energy Policy - Sustainability in all things!

* New Energy Incentive Program - $50m + incentives

* Local Fresh Food in all Communities Program - - local and fresh basics

* Processes of Self Government to enlarge the democratic community

* Farm Management Relief Program - Success with Less - Good food for Canadians

* Deep Arctic Development Program - with military and civilian components including two major Armed Forces bases [Unified Force Regiments] with scientific component.  Permanent access highways and transportation routes for travel and regulated tourism in cooperation with First Nations and Inuit Peoples

* The Roberta Bondar Deep Space Exploration Program - “To the Universe and Beyond!” A Quantum Age Investment
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Justice with Compassion - A governing Principle for our society and government

* Housing and Education over Policing and Prisons
* Compassion and Justice lead to Law and Order


Compassionate Policies to address the widespread grief of the Canadian people.  This grief must be overcome in order for the nation to move forward into the challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century with health and confidence.

 * Veterans of Foreign Conflicts and Foreign Service Priority Support Program
- special care and support for all Armed Forces personnel and their families, diplomats and staff, intelligence personnel, security personnel   Cost? - Priceless!
          
* Equal Rights for Children Implementation Program - Bill S-209 [Protection of Children]   * priority * 

* Global Slave Trade Eradication Program - pro-human Rights legislation, policy and action

* DNA Missing Persons Data Base for family members of Canadians who have disappeared in order to match with unidentified remains that have been found in order to bring closure to families.