Boo Who

I have no sympathy for Fair Vote Canada and its supporters. They wish to manipulate the levers of government power rather than to replace those levers with less government dependency.

Source: https://www.fairvote.ca

Reminder:

Workshop Wed May 20,7-8:30 PM ET: How to talk about electoral reform in political settings in Ontario.

Dear Gene,

In the past eight years Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives have won three “majority” governments, each time with little more than 40% of the popular vote.

With the PC’s popularity sinking to its lowest level in years, the next election presents a real opportunity for a new government that could drive progress on proportional representation!

It’s up to us to convince politicians, party members and allies to support and prioritize proportional representation for Ontario.

The conversations you have at political events in Ontario can make the difference!

On Wednesday May 20, join us for a workshop with two experienced volunteers on how to have effective conversations about proportional representation:

Perspective matters.

Notice the anti-conservative tone in that message.

In reality, those advocates for election reform are actually shilling for more “progressive“ governments to play in our lives. Liberals, NDP, and Greens are where most progressive voters live. Collecting, they outnumber conservative voters and they swamp the 1 to 2% of voters who vote (if a candidate is running in their riding) Libertarian like me. A Libertarian vote, by definition, is a vote for less government, lower taxes, fewer arcane rules to follow, and much greater freedom of choice in a society where personal responsibility is its own reward.

How did the ethic of victimhood become so dominant?

Was today’s “poor me” culture engineered by powerful, malevolent, unseen forces, as some people surmise? The WEF, WHO, UN, BlackRock, the Rothschilds — take your pick. I doubt you will get any tangible evidence, but if you did, good luck overcoming the extreme power imbalance between you and them.

How did meddling in the lives of others become so admired?

One of the Workshop leaders is a retired Physics teacher who has built a reputation for her climate change advocacy. Has it never occurred to her that only a minority of voters care enough about atmospheric greenhouse gases to rank it amongst their top ten concerns for governments to address? Why does she advocate for more taxation, regulations and public spending when her time would be much better spent raising funds from like-minded citizens to finance engineering projects that will bring real environmental outcomes rather than a slew of new public policies that cost taxpayers outrageous to enforce.

Short memory?

Did those anti-conservative proportional representation advocates conveniently forget that Liberal leaders Justin Trudeau and Kathleen Wynne won majority governments by being chosen by fewer than 35% of eligible voters?

Yes, low voter turnout was also a significant factor. However, Doug Ford is not the first elected leader to claim this dubious achievement and certainly not be the last 🤨

I wonder if and how Proportional Representation would change this DNV trend?

Likely not at all, especially after voters realize that the #1 Problem In Canada does not change ==> TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT.

The 55% Did Not Vote says what?

Think about the realistic implications of this election result in Ontario.

• Of the 124 seats in the Ontario Legislature, 63 meet the majority bar. The other 61 elected MPPs will scramble to gain influence over power, while the ruling party MPPs will be “whipped” to vote according to their elected mandate or political ideology.

• Assume the Greens win 2 seats and the NDP win 8. Their combined Climate Change advocacy will not dent other public priorities, especially when voters connect the dots: more Climate Change policies ==> more enforcement costs ==> higher taxes and/or public debt liabilities to share with all their loved ones. Today’s top priority is the cost of living — anyone who pushes for more Climate Change policies is both tone deaf and selfish beyond words.

• Perhaps 55% of eligible voters abstained from voting to express their lack of trust and respect for today’s Too Much Government reality. After all, how will their single vote affect their individual lives? Yes, the media and public officials constantly remind us that it is our civic duty to vote and that we have no right to complain unless we participate in our electoral democracy. Those claims are such a crock and are nothing more than a not-so-subtle form of compliance manipulation.

  By not voting, you are voting😳

  and 55% IS the MAJORITY VOTE ✅

The DNV vote does not count however towards acknowledging “the will of the people” — the segment of the voting population that would also choose the NOTA (none of the above) option if presented on every ballot. This, of course, is BY DESIGN.

Our overlords don’t want an official electoral record showing a grade of “F” on their report card. Instead, they push opposing opinions to the “unacceptable” fringes of society - the noisy rallies in prime public streets; the thousands of Zoom meetings that allow people to express their feels but have no power to move the needle towards desired outcomes; the podcasters who reveal how “the emperor has no cloths” but continues to strut proudly in front of media cameras and public audiences as if the “emperor wears Prada”.

The Trucker Convoy event ripped the blinders off the eyes of millions of shocked Canadians who saw the true face of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal “democracy”.

When the truth is seen👁️, it can’t be unseen. 👀❗️

I have bern a Libertarian voter for nearly twenty years. I, like every Libertarian advocate in Canada, have never been able to elect anyone with my values and expectations.

The game of electoral democracy is rigged to sustain the current cabals of political power.

The survival instincts of elected politicians is on constant alert, careful to avoid any faux pas that could loosen their desperate grasp from the keys to their kingdom.

Even with this knowledge, though, I still vote. There is a silient voice inside me that tells me to leave to my offspring a society that is better than the Canada that is trending towards the non-sovereign “post national state” that Justin Trudeau promised a decade ago and for which Mark Carney is still carrying that globalist torch.

For me, that “better society” must be grounded in Libertarian principles and values enforced with a fully sovereign Canada.

Those principles and vslurd would be commonplace if taught in all venues of public education, and if our political class lived by and exemplied them while carrying out their ‘duties of office’.

Tempted to attend the workshop?

No. The workshop would have been predictable. Like the many Zoom advocacy meetings I’ve attended.

• There is always lots of complaining.

• Some participants share expressions of sympathy and empathy to demonstrate their virtue and punctuate their cheeleading efforts.

• Optimistic voices claim that success will follow only if everyone heeds their advice and their advocacy efforts are increased.

“The squeaky wheel gets the grease” seems to be the principle at play in those Zoom meetings.

However, rarely acknowledged is the steady cacophony of squeaky wheels in society these days — too many to absorb.

Sadly, the grease seems to be going to places and people where it is not needed.

One question still remains.

Is this squeaky wheel receiving any government subsidies?

Here is what I learned about Fair Vote Canada.

• It is a registered not-for-profit (incorporated), but not a registered charity.

• It receives no government subsidies based on its own declared lobbying disclosures.

• Donors receive no charitable tax receipts.

• It is funded by membership fees and private donations.

I respect their efforts to advocate on their own dime. 👍