The Canadian National Newspaper: British Columbia nominated federal party candidate suggests Canadians need to explore new political options

British Columbia nominated federal party candidate suggests Canadians need to explore new political options

It is possible that you are one of those Canadians who has voted in the past without having been made aware of all of the options you have to choose from. Typically a ballot in a Canadian election has at least half a dozen choices, and often ten or more.

There are a few choices on these ballots about which most Canadians believe they have at least some idea of what the choices represent. These options are: Conservative, Liberal, NDP, Parti Quebecois, and recently, most Canadians have begun to regard Green as a party which they recognize.

The fact that the other choices on their ballots have almost always received less than one percent of the votes leads most Canadians to believe that these options are ineffective, and thus not worth the time to actually learn about. I would like you to reconsider this notion.

Do you know that every major progressive reform to Canadian government policy has been initially suggested and argued by a party that was not receiving a significant number of votes in elections? Do you know that the parties in power have always worked hard to stop these policy changes from happening until such time as there was so much support for the policies that they couldn't work against them anymore without appearing to be against the will of Canadians?

The Canadian government was formulated out of the British monarchy that declared this land its own without any regard or concern for the people who had lived here prior to that. The monarchy was greedy and self righteous.

Our laws have evolved since then, but many of the injustices that were initially present in the nation of Canada when it was formulated remain part of our country to this day, and the mainstream parties do not want to continue allowing us to change those unjust laws. Change comes from the "fringe" parties.

Every vote for a fringe party is made by a person with their own conviction and character. Votes for the mainstream parties are mostly made by people who have a rudimentary understanding of what any of the actions of their government are all about.

They want someone else to do all the work FOR them, and because of their lack of understanding, they end up enabling someone else to do a lot of things against them, without their knowledge or consent.

If you knew how hard the mainstream parties, and the people that control them, work to try to usurp more power and wealth for themselves and take it away from us, the citizens, you may well be completely shocked. They are greedy and power-hungry, and they do a great job of hiding these facts from the citizens of the nation.

The Canadian Action Party (CAP) is one of your choices on your ballot to work against the greedy, unscrupulous, power hungry factions that have been in control of Canada since it was first created.

I am a representative grassroots supporter of CAP, and I would very much like to present you my ideas about how I can help turn this nation into a place where the government represents us fairly, and we are given honest information and answers about the dangers to our freedoms and our lives. Here is an introduction to the policies I stand for.

I would like to offer you something that your country has never offered you before. I would like to offer you more control over your government than you have ever had. It's quite a simple change, but I think you deserve it, and I believe you will use it to very good effect. I would like to offer you the right to change your vote at any time you wish, instead of only once every four years.

There are many reasons why you deserve this. One reason is that you pay taxes every day of your life, and yet you only get a say in what gets done with those taxes once every four years. I don't think that's fair.

Another reason is that you are paying the salaries of the politicians that work in your government, and yet if they are doing something you quite disapprove of and it's three years to the next election, you are practically powerless to do anything about it. If you do decide to try do something about it, it will take more energy and time than you probably have to devote to it.

Still another reason that I think you deserve this right is because I believe that you will use it wisely. I don't think that you will change your vote unless you give it some serious consideration, think about the fact that somebody's job and livelihood rests in your hands, and think about the fact that your government provides for many of the needs and comforts of all of the people around you, and your vote will influence whether or not those needs are met. I believe that you care about all these things, and you won't treat your vote with neglect or frivolousness.

In fact, I don't think anybody will, because we care about our fellow citizens. That is why, at such time as I am elected into Parliament, and I change the system as I am describing to you here, I will be placing my faith in you to let me know what you want from your government. If I do not respond to your wishes, then I have no right to remain in your employ, and you can withdraw your support from me at a time of your own choosing.

I want to trust you to treat me fairly. In fact, I think that the current system encourages people to treat their vote more frivolously, because it seems like such a crapshoot, and it also feels like such a patronizing slap in the face from our government when they take as much taxes from us as they do and all they give us in return is one little 'X' in a box once every four years. They are treating us like little children with no idea of how to look after ourselves.

I believe that if you had the power to change your vote at any time of your own choosing, you would give far more serious consideration, study, and discussion to your vote than you do at present. I believe that everybody would.

That is precisely why I would prefer to see this sort of a system in place than the term-based democracy that our country has used since confederation.

There is one major reason that many people think that this change to our system would fail if we were to put it into usage. This reason is that they believe that there are people running our country who are somehow more intelligent than themselves. They believe that we need to make sure we give those people enough power that they have enough control over us that we don't do anything stupid.

Why do we put ourselves down this way? Do we not trust ourselves? Do we not trust our fellow citizens? I'll tell you, in general, I'll trust a fellow Canadian that I meet in the street more than I'll trust a member of our government any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Another reason that some people think that this change to our system would destroy our government is because they feel that people would be changing their votes all the time and causing our government to become ineffective and unstable.

There are several reasons why I am quite sure that this would not happen, the first being this: if you think through all of the people you know personally who you have ever spoken to about their vote, or your vote, can you even think of one person that has ever changed their opinion of who they wanted to vote for more than once in a year?

In fact, wouldn't it be reasonable to say that there are large numbers of people that only change their minds about who they wish to vote for once every ten years?

Why would you think the nation's government would be unstable just because the people were in control of their government instead of the government being in control of the people? That seems absurd! And yet somehow, we are led to believe this all of our lives.

Another reason that people think this idea wouldn't work is because there would have to be regular systems set up that would allow people to have access to their vote at any time that they wish. Some people think that this would be too complicated a system to set up, and that it would take too many resources to keep the system running.

Well as I stated previously, the actual number of people changing their decision about their vote on a day to day basis would be marginally small, so the personnel and infrastructure necessary to run such a system would be quite small.

Furthermore, if you look at the massive amount of hours of labour and money that goes into a general federal election every four years, and think about the fact that we'd be avoiding doing all that, you can see that we might even have less money and labour invested in an ongoing system of voting than we do in the current system.

Many people have been researching this idea of ongoing democracy for many years now, and it has been proven that it is an extremely workable system.

To learn more about it, feel free to visit the CAP website at www.canadianactionparty.ca or e-mail me, LINK. Also have a look at my personal candidate's statement, LINK

I urge you to learn more about the Canadian Action Party. Speak to the party representative for your riding. Consider us as an option for your vote when an election is called in Canada. Don't trust your government. Nobody should "govern" you.

You are a free person. The fact that there is any such thing as "government" in our world is a tragic accident of human evolution, and any party that promises to take power away from the government and give it to you, a citizen, and all of your fellow citizens, is helping stop this accident from continuing to cause the harm that it does. That is our goal, and I hope you can support it.

Psam Frank is a Canadian Action Party candidate in the British Columbia Federal riding of Vancouver Quadra.

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