Liberals Sign WEF Initiated ‘Agile Nations Charter’

Dr. Leslyn Lewis is asking all the right questions about Canada’s involvement in this initiative. I admire her non-partisan approach to challenging the secrecy concerning Canada's participation in it.

Agile is a well known term especially in software development organizations. The Agile methodology that has become dominant in that industry worldwide and is a proven approach great to solving complex problems. One purpose of the Agile Nations Charter to standard the problem-solving approach to resolve regulatory differences between nations and the ‘interoperability’ issues that arise from those differences. The Charter is currently a pilot project involving seven nations includes Canada. Seven major technology companies have been asked to contribute their expertise to the development of standards that will be commonly shared between all participating countries. Another stated goal is to foster innovation by improving upon the collaborative efforts between countries and to deliver on the promised potential of the 4th Industrial Revolution. The World Economic Forum has played a collaborating role in establishing and bringing together the current Agile Nations Charter participants.

I worked in the “computer industry” from 1977 to 2018 starting with IBM Canada and ending with an international Consulting company known as R3D Consulting. My specialty over the last 36 years was as a professional recruiter in the Information Technology field. I interviewed over 10,000 IT professionals in virtually every conceivable job category. Agile was R3D’s primary methodology for most of the software development done in our Quebec City and Mexico centres. In 2013, ‘R3D Digital’ was announced to acknowledge and promote to our customers that we worked exclusively to create solutions that operated in the emerging ‘digital economy’,

My reaction to the purpose and concept behind the Agile Nations Charter was positive. It simply provides a forum to improve trade between and in collaboration with other nations in a manner that will identify and remedy unnecessary obstacles and potentially streamline the productivity-promoting processes and information flows.

Dr. Leslyn Lewis was my first choice

I ranked Dr. Lewis and Pierre Poilievre as #1 and #2 in that order when they competed to become leader of the federal Conservatives. She is intelligent, likeable, non-confrontational, level-headed and appears to think deeply on matters from the perspective of a genuine concern for the interests of Canadians. Regarding the Agile Nations Charter, all of her expressed concerns were about the lack lack of transparency and accountability of the Liberal government on this topic. The Liberals like to operate on a “need to know” basis and, apparently, the “pay grade” of Canadian taxpayers is not high enough to loop us into the discussion.

I recommend this video. The questions that Leslyn is asking are spot on. She also understands and empathizes with WEF concerns expressed by many Canadians. The New World Order vision of Dr. Klaus Schwab, founder and Chairman of the World Economic Forum, is casting a shadow over this Charter and it's mandate. Leslyn is right to ask why the WEF is involved and to what extent its ideas will influence the Charter’s work groups and projects over time. It may has started as a pilot project, but Milton Friedman expressed one on my concerns well..

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”