So, the people of Canada think we are having a democratic moment.

We, the people of Canada, have let what little democracy we may have had at one time slip and now we are letting it slip even more. 

Let’s look for a moment at democracy and what it is supposed to be because it seems that Canadians no longer have any idea about it.  It is just a word we use pushed by our politicians and their propaganda media to make us think it exists here in Canada. 

It does not.

A Canadian parliament is elected person by person until every available seat is filled. We are theoretically electing someone to represent us to the eventual government, but how often do we check to see if they are doing that?   Yes, they nearly all belong a political party which has a particular bent on how things should be done and these parties are now used as a voting block with perhaps little regard for the constituents. and that voting block or platform may be what draws some to vote. Then the party which forms a majority of support in parliament forms a government based on the party’s bent, and the leader of that party is declared the new Prime Minister.

OK that’s basically how it is supposed to work but in actuality it does not work that way.

Right from the start of a Canadian election it is all about who will be the next Prime Minister.  How many times have you had a canvassing call asking if you are going to vote for this leader or that for Prime Minister when they may not even live or stand for election in your province? Polls are conducted on that subject, and talking heads on our propaganda media discuss it all the time when it is all false.

Your vote is for your local MP to be and so the question should not be about their party leader but how much do you know about them? 

Where I live there is party leader running and so the question of which leader might be valid to some, but I do not judge her by her party or leadership of it (I am against the 3 major platforms of her party) but instead by what she has done for her constituents or indeed the number of private member’s bill she has managed to get into law for all Canadians. These are important to me as they should be to anyone who is even vaguely interested in democracy, not the automatic bending of the knee to a party whip. Who is actually important to the elected member – the party whip or the constituent?

I actually stood for election in 2008, and fought the local media to get any time or space as they claimed my “party” did not have a candidate in every seat when in fact the only party that year that did was the conservative party. I actually had fun interacting with voters, asking them what they wanted or not, and making some fairly outrageous but true statements about my opposition. I was also lucky to have a videographer who came with me (Paul Stein) to record meetings I could attend.

One thing I did was ask about 1oo hundred people if they would belong to an email list of constituents I would email every week with the votes I was due to make on their behalf (complete with precis of my pros and cons) and for them to email me back “yea” or “nay”. I even had people come up to me and ask if they could be on the list and I said yes as soon as I get elected.  

They showed interest you see in how things should be done and wanted to participate. Today we are lucky if we ever hear back from our MPs. 

I heard one candidate saying that it was difficult to get the necessary signatures from locals giving permission to run and I wonder why as my daughter and I collected 300 + signatures of people willing to give me permission to run (not necessarily to vote for me) on Beacon Avenue in just over 2.5  hours. Most of them were happy to sign and be asked to participate in the process.

So, where am I going with this?

What do you know about your candidates and their positions on matters of real concern to you?

What are the matters that really concern you?

We all know the party platforms that they represent and the promises that are made during the election period with no legal intention of fulfilling those promises, but what are their own opinions and desires to serve you?

Which is more important to them – their party or their constituents?  (Today it is all about reelection to what can become a very cushy job in many respects. Travel from the west coast is a bit of a bear but just do what the party wants and they will sign your papers for the next time).

Being a member of the Canadian parliament also means that there is a responsibility to Canadian affairs.  Does your candidate support their party in three subjects that all parties support? Or do they have the strength of their own convictions and those of the majority of their constituents that they are willing to support if you ask them.

All major parties support:

Unending support for the Nazis in Ukraine giving them dollars that would be much better spent here at home and denying the prospect of a just peace? Combined with an unwillingness to understand what it is really all about.

Unending support for arming the Zionist genocide in Palestine under the pretext that Israel has the right to defend itself !  

(How can any real person sleep at night while this slaughter of women and children is getting more egregious every day. It sickens me that almost our entire parliament is ok with this).

Supporting the hoax that CO2 is responsible for climate change.

Those are my three for Canada, what are yours?

Now of course there is support for the imposition of retaliatory tariffs on American products thereby giving us a “much needed” extra tax. Does your candidate support that extra tax? Do you and have you made that clear? Do you remember how the USA started?  With a tax of 5% on tea. Now it is about to be destroyed with 100% tariffs on some things.   Taxes, taxes and more taxes, and these moronic current Canadian politicians are doing the same thing – raising taxes by instigating tariffs.   They claim to be Canadians fighting for Canada when in fact all they are doing is being a new tax man.  Great!

There is a terror of foreign interference in our elections and business and yet there is no complaint against the Americans interfering with their barrage of slurs and tariffs. When we interfere with our own elections (by nonstop lying propaganda) why would we blame others for doing the same?

Support the increased spending on our military against enemies in the Artic when our major enemy is south of us. For that matter why are we still in NATO? (I still wonder who will attack us militarily anyway)

Are your candidates afraid of the Zionist Lobby which is very strong here in Canada? It is vitriolic, demonic and prejudiced against all non-Zionists and quick to condemn all opposition as anti-semantic and through fear controls all major parties through such threats and contributions under the table. That’s the Zionist way as the Jews have practiced for hundreds of years.

Will they (your candidates) support the cancelling of one engine planes to patrol our north? Planes which the Americans can take over and control any time they want (through installed software) and get instead two engined planes – much safer for the pilots – and within our own control and not subject to any tariffs. We are a sovereign nation and we are not obligated to buy an American plane that does not fit our needs.

For my local candidates are they even aware of the restoration projects in this riding? Both here on the main island and on the Gulf Islands which require time, effort and CO2.

Are they willing to co-ordinate with local MLAs and provincial agencies to get things done re health, education, housing, infrastructure and crime?

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Just some of the things we should all know about our candidates; these of course are my pet peeves but the question is what are yours and how does your candidate fit with them?

It is our country and our election in which to make a difference or we can just do the same thing over and over again and expect the impossible to happen.

Democracy is a myth in Canada and will be as long as we deny it as a possibility.  We can make a difference if we choose to and this would be a good time to choose..

Peace.