My views on this federal election

My Life Lens is different than yours and everyone else in Canada. For what it’s worth, I offer my perspective on our election choices and the process we use to select our forms of governance.

I was a PPC candidate in the 2019 election.

Naively, I was hopeful that at least a few of the PPC’s best candidates (the pro-libertarian kind like Max) would win seats. So far, no PPC MP has been elected.

No-win Choices.

It’s naive to believe that any but a Conservative or Liberal party will form a government in Canada. You can vote according to your values (mine are Libertarian) may give you some peace of mind. OR, you can vote for the least dangerous of the Blue or Red choices. Voting according to your values is a luxury reserved for good times when we are not facing existential threats. These are not good times.

Carney represents a path to digital communism.

As a senior member of the Work Economic Forum, Marc Carney has promoted ‘stakeholder capitalism’ - a centrally controlled economic model featuring a One World Order led by self-professed elites like him. The WEF-types are systematically making progress towards their goals which will be fully enabled by a central bank digital currency (CBDC) and a digital surveillance infrastructure with AI-based enforcement mechanisms throughout. Like all central planning approaches tried in the past by national governments, force is required to make it work. Eventually, all communist regimes collapse because their models prove unworkable.

The WEF-types live by the motto “Whoever controls the money controls the people”. It’s no surprise that the WEF has successfully installed Marc Carney as Prime Minister of Canada given his extensive central banking background and global power connections.

On paper, the socialist ideas of Karl Marx and other brands of socialism, including communism, can be compelling to so many average citizens who watch some people become rich and powerful while the majority struggle to make ends meets. “The politics of envy” was a phrase coined to identify this socio-economic dynamic.

The popularity of those ideas, especially in academic institutions and others with an extensive labour union presence, explains why so many people who have never lived under communist rule favour those ideas. Their members are also quick to demonize the traditional corporate “shareholder capitalism” that made their vehicles, the clothes on their backs, the entertainment they watch and the food they each. Are all of their products ideal? No⁉️ But they are better than the alternatives supplied under communism.

Carney is selling to Canadians a kind of “communism with Canadian characteristics” similar to the “communism with Chinese characteristics” that is proudly boasted by another senior member of the WEF - Xi Jinping.

Poilievre represent DOGE-light for Canada

Pierre’s campaign speeches are clear and dynamic. He promised more carbon tax cuts, CBC defunding, a stronger military force, less immigration, opening interprovincial trade, addressing the debt crisis, reducing government red tape and backing away from the excessive Liberal commitments under Trudeau for a Green economy.

Pierre offers Canadians the opposition of Carney’s vision.

As a longtime Libertarian, I view Carney as representing everything I oppose about creeping government growth and controls over our lives.I see Pierre has having political goals that are focussed on a good direction for average Canadians.

That said, I know well how difficult it will be for Pierre. Like his predecessor, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Poilievre faces enormous barriers to achieving most of his goals because the real political power resides within the many institutions of the federal government. Too many vested stakeholders will resists Pierre’s efforts aggressively, including the many powerful NGOs (such as the labour unions and climate change activist groups) who have built a secure legislative scaffolding to protect their interests.

Is Electoral Reform a potential fix?

Carl Sweetman of Lindsay recently advocated for Proportional Representation (PR) for our elections in his letter to the editor of the Kawartha Lakes Weekly. Carl’s comments were certainly constructive if he seeks an elected parliament and/or legislative assembly that better represents the proportion of votes gathered by each political party.

However, PR would not repair the loss of public trust regarding the accountability and transparency in government decision-making by our elected representatives and unelected department heads. This decline in faith and trust in our government is reflected in a significant drop voter turnout over the last decade to below 50%.

Rather than changing to PR…

I propose that every election ballot include a few general instructions for whichever party wins the election.

On election day, a paper ballot could still be used to record one’s vote (if desired), but answers to sample questions like the two that follow could be captured and recorded anonymously using a simple online, encrypted digital device located inside each polling booth. The results could be tracked and displayed in real time as part of the election coverage by all media outlets.

QUESTION: Until the next election, do you want the government to:

1️⃣ a) spend more? b) spend less? (c) spend strictly to a capped budget based on the average spending over the last four years?

2️⃣ a) Create more laws and regulations? (b) Maintain the same number of laws and regulations? (c) Begin a review of all laws and regulations to identify ones which still have value for Canadians and which can be reasonably eliminated to increase the efficiencies of government operations and the public they serve?”

Would this stop the WEF and ambitious men like Carney?

Not much, but it’s a good start to get citizens to think about what they want in our leaders and public institutions.

If this idea is accepted and enforced by Elections Canada, I will take it as a ‘win’.

We could leverage it for more reforms that Canada desperately needs to protect us from our our ‘politics of envy’ and the creeping forces of globalism promulgated by people like Carney, Trudeau, Freeland, Singh and all the voters of Canada who have been so easily caught in their traps.