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.


 ...and also see...

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

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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

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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! - - -