Do these Goals resonate with you?

I am acutely aware how each person is unique in his or her life circumstances, experiences, beliefs and priorities. However, is there common ground upon which we all would all stand for our future?

Are universally SHARED GOALS possible to define?

As most of you know, I believe that the #1 Problem in Canada is Too Much Government. I wonder how many of you see life in Canada through a similar lens.

The following is my “wish list” for Canadian Society. I wrote it to solicit feedback from you, my readers. What do you like? Oppose? Wish to modify? Suggest as an addition?

Feel free to be also honest and sincere as you like (I have thick skin). There is no right or wrong answer, just your thoughtful and heart-felt response.

My Wish List

1. I wish to ensure that our Governments, under limited mandates as Trustee for Canadian taxpayers, will diligently maintain and ethically manage all public property and common assets entrusted to their care. I want this Trustee responsibility to exist solely for the purpose of safeguarding all assigned public assets (public property, pension funds, etcetera) for the well-being of present and future Canadians.

2. I wish to eliminate and prevent all abuses of the powers that Canadians have entrusted to governments officials. Specifically, I want to end all unwarranted, unwanted and self-serving public monopolies, privileges and crony relationships with third party organizations who derive unearned benefits from those powers.

3. I wish Canadian voters would elect and hold accountable all levels of government to allocate public resources in manner that is fiscally respectful and solely responsive to the needs and priorities of the taxpayers of Canada. In practice, I want these entrusted institutions and agencies to cost-effectively supply and maintain only the Canadian infrastructure and services which could not be adequately provided without government involvement or funding. Anything beyond this scope, domestic or international, can be funded by private donations.

4. I wish for proper economic balance between the public and private economic sectors in Canada. I wants this balance to be one that Canadians can afford without excessive public debt, punishing levels of taxation and over-sided regulatory bureaucracies that are increasingly suffocating individual choices, initiative and personal fulfillment.

5. I wish to regain my faith and trust that our nation is safe from the threat of bankruptcy. I will only feel safe after a hard cap is permanently imposed on public spending and when the size, cost and scope of responsibilities of all government institutions and agencies nationwide are reduced to levels we can safely afford.

6. I wish that anti-theft laws would apply equitably to every Canadian regardless of wealth or public stature. Public servants have benefited too often with immunity from their misdeeds. I want, in practice, to punish any tax-funded worker who incurs expenses beyond budgeted allotment, to face the same potential consequences as anyone in the private sector for which such misdeeds would be legally considered the crime of embezzlement.

7. I wish to reward the living and stop burdening them with reparations for the ‘sins of their forefathers’. No one can change the past. I want this to be finally acknowledged and to stop politicians and public officials from continuing to use mistakes of the past to be exploited as “wedge issues” to divide and punish our families and communities indefinitely.

8. I wish to reform all institutions of justice in Canada. For starters, I want to repeal the laws and regulations that enable some privileged persons to escape the legal consequences for their immoral and unethical decisions and/or actions that are proven to be the cause of significant harm to others. In addition, I want to reinstate the supremacy of common law over state laws which have been authored by self-serving government bureaucrats and back room power brokers, then signed into law under the misguided loyalty to party solidarity by Parliamentarians who don’t know what they are signing.

9. I wish to introduce competition into the public sector economy and to eliminate all legislation that enables unwarranted monopolies and oligopolies to dominate in public services. In practice, I want unbiased economic conditions to exist for non-government service providers to enter markets (such as public Education) and directly compete with government service providers on an equal tax and regulatory ‘playing field’’. Let the market decide the winners and losers in those markets.

It’s Your Turn to Speak Up

I have a project in mind. Your feedback will inform my approach. I hope to hear from as many of you as possible.

At the very least, I also hope that the above wish list will be food for thought and discussions with friends and family as 2024 approaches. It is at least a year until our next federal and Ontario elections. The time to think about these ideas is now.