Climate-related CRONY-STATISM
The 3 forms of Cronyism are Crony-Capitalism, Crony-Socialism and Crony-Statism. You can recognize them when you know what to look for. None of them serve the interests of average Canadians.
NGOs and Crony-Statism
The Eco Fiscal Commission published an Open Letter on Carbon Pricing
This letter provides an excellent opportunity to discuss Crony Statism and how it robs Canadians of their money and their informed choices. This affects their individal liberty and personal responsibility.
In addition, it shows how the Citizens’ Preferences Database proposal, presented as part of a 12 episode Substack series called Digital Direct Democracy, can be the antidote to Crony Statism and other forms of Digital Communism coming our way.
If you think that “Digital Communism” is not appropriate to characterize entire sectors of government responsibility such as the Climate Change industry in Canada, consider that ‘communism’ refers to the complete ownership of the means of production within an industry; the Climate Change Governmental Complex is 100% owned and operated by all levels of government and including their “partners” such as the state-sibsidized NGOs and other third parties that operate within our national borders and beyond. The “digital” adjective requires no explanation for anyone with a pulse living in the present.
Please read the Open Letter.
Notice two things.
100% of the signatories are: government employees whose income and professional expenses are taxpayer-funded; or they are associated with some third-party group that endorses the politicized climate change agenda and are subsided with money or legislated privileges as “government-friendly allies”.
All arguments for carbon prizing are so one-sided and simplistic as to be laughable. The term “government misinformation” has come to mean “what else are they not telling us?” Their messaging seems targeted to anyone who cannot think critically and who possesses child-like naivete.
Your Personal DEFENSE Against CRONYISM
Governments build institutions which they protect from competion using their powers to create self-serving laws and regulations. As we have all witnessed in recent years, their powers have extended to attempts to control our freedoms of speech, choice, association and what was one considered “the free press”.
These consequences are.
When you have no choice, you are cornered. — Trapped. — Defeated.
In nature, a cornered animal is a dangerous animal. Since humans became “civilized”, few are even remotely dangerous when cornered.
Canadians are notorious for being nice, passive, agreeable, pliable and soft. How much of this is the result of a multi-decade plan to “tame” Canadians to be compliant to the will of the State?
Groups like EcoFiscal are predators.
Many NGOs intentionally deceive the public with grandiose and unsubstantiated claims. EcoFiscal is guilty of this public deception.
The Open Letter suggests a consensus among many “expert Economists”. That document implies that they all agreed to co-sign this Open Letter in support of the claims made.
The Letter follows a proven formula. The degrees and privileged government positions held by those listed “experts” are intended to intimidate many less-qualified Canadians who, in turn, will conclude that those “experts must know what they are doing”. This tactic is designed to undermine the confidence of many citizens in their personal knowledge and judgement, then to “outsource their critical thinking” to complete strangers - just names on a page. It's a subtle way to draw more people down the path to state-run totalitarian collectivism.
The “freedom movement” is also growing, thankfully.
Meanwhile, millions of Canadians are now fully aware of the power and intimidation games played by NGO groups like EcoFiscal. Concerned citizens join local and national freedom groups which now number in the hundreds. Most operate as satellite communities independent of each other.
While “strength in numbers” is understood as a growth goal by their group leaders, not enough of them have joined forces with other groups to make build the critical mass needed to shape this movement into a meaningful political force. Hopefully, this will begin to happen soon.
I hope that the STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES, published by Civis4Reform, will find its way to all of these groups to become the glue that will bind their efforts around a unified national whole.
It lays out the sound ethical and moral values that are necessary to REGENERATE CANADIAN DEMOCRACY.
The Citizens Preferences Database solution is premature.
The future of Canadian Democracy in the Digital Age must include the ability of every citizen to register OPT-OUT choices for certain government programs that don’t apply to them.
It makes no sense for any citizen to succumb against their will to coereced tax payments and/or regulatory requirements imposed by Canada’s Climate Change Governmental Complex.
This Citizens’ Preferences Database solution is viable way for Canadians to escape the tyranny of an increasingly oppressive state.
In particular, it can leverage the technological infrastructure of the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) system a way to protect citizens’ rights and strictly enforce the duties of government.
Much to be done.
Political barriers must be eliminated before an idea like the Citizens Preferences Database can become reality. The technology already exists. The potential reduction in the size, cost and scope of government authority that it will bring can easily provide a “financial & liberty payback” to every citizen to cover the costs of design, implementation and operation.
Why is the Citizens Preferences Database proposal not gaining traction?
I can think of a few reasons.
Complacency. We Canadians like our ‘creature comforts’. Few people will “rock the boat” to upset their comfortable and familiat status quo. Desperation and fear seem to be the only catalysts to prompt people to accept significant change readily. Unfortunately, this usually comes only after it's too late to protect what we once had.
Institutional Propaganda. All of our media and public institutions have been used to capture the psyche of Canadians. The messages are repeated incessantly that everything our public institutions do is “safe and effective” and “for the greater good”. We’ve heard variations of these themes so often that most citizens never question them.
Excessive Government Power and Influence. The true source of real power in Western nations is the state’s authority to tax and regulate businesses and individual persons with impunity. That enormous power is a magnet that attracts people and business owners to seek “favours” and “privileges” which are granted by government officials.
Unelected and elected people are the custodians of those tools of government power. They alone are authoritized to create preferential laws and regulations, to distribute monetary subsidies in their various forms, or both.
Government lobbying for those perks has grown steadily in recent decades because it is a proven and successful survival strategy.
A guy can still dream, can’t he?
I will continue to dream of the day when Democracy returns to Canada. I don’t live in the past. I am not expecting future Democracy to look the same as in the 1960s.
My 40+ years of employment in the ‘computer industry’ trained me to envision how technology may be used to benefit mankind in new and innovative ways.
It's with this mindset that I wrote the Digital Direct Democracy - An Antidote to Digital Communism ebook last year. My continued belief in the Citizens Preferences Database proposal therein inspired me to recently rewrite the ebook as a 12-episode Substack series by the same name.
I will continue to showcase different ways the Citizens Preferences Database proposal can restore Democracy in essays like this one.
I hope you will share these ideas with others until all Canadian voters become aware and informed about its possibilities.
in a manner that the ability of citizens will be free to choose to Opt-In and Opt-Out of a whole range of government offerings.