Ontario Sovereignty Act - update

On February 8, I posed an idea to discover how many people would be interested in Ontario establishing legislation to protect our citizens from our rogue federal government. The OSA idea has fizzled.

The original OSA post is here.

Today is May 28. I have abandoned the idea originally posted on February 8.

The OSA plan requires a province-wide team to be successful.

Collecting 10,000 signatures takes work. Arranging for volunteers to attend their local MPPs office (there are 124 offices in Ontario, one for each electoral riding) is essential so that all 124 of those elected representatives are notified in person that 10,000 Ontario signatories want our MPPs to write and pass a bill in the Legislative Assemby of Ontrario. That bill must result in an Ontario Sovereinty Act (OSA) that establishes the legislative authority to block any federal legislation that opposes the interests of the people of Ontario.

Global authorities at the WHO, WEF, IMF, IBS and the United Nations were NOT ELECTED by Canadians AND must not have any authority to impose laws on us. The OSA it intended to serve notice to the Government of Canada that it can signed as many global treaties as it likes but they won’t be worth the paper they are on if the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario refuse to comply. Ideally, every province in Canada will some say have the same protections in place and the authorities of the federal government will be boxed in by a provincial “ring of fire” comprised of legislation to burn any federal document that threatens to burn Canadians’ Constitutional rights.

I am the author of this idea and proposed initiatives.

I had suggested the Ontario Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the Acts passed in Alberta and Saskatchewan, to serve as sources of relevant content from which interested MPPs could craft Ontario Sovereinty Act. The Ontario Charter is a modified version of the federal Charter on Rights and Freedoms to enact pretections for the People of Ontario.

I had hoped to collect those 10,000 signatures and personally present them to the Legislative Assenbly of Ontario along with as many volunteers as possible to be in the audience in that event. The goal is to make in newsworthy so that as many of our 14 million Ontario residents as possible are informed and make their voice heard too. Who knows, maybe some of the mainstream media may be present and interested in doing their job. The image presented of Canada was chosen to envision what could be achieved politically if we could we could get “all hands on deck” to get the work done.

To promote the OSA…

I sought the assistance of the Elevate Community. On  April 22, I attended the first (annual?) meeting of “freedom groups” from across Ontario organized by Travis McDonald and a group of volunteers operating under the name Elevate Community. The meeting was billed: COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL FOR ELEVATE COMMUNITY LEADERS EVENT: Ontario Leadership Group.

The four-hour formal session was attended by about 100 representatives and “influencers” associated with an estimated 65 different freedom groups from across Ontario. Is was followed by an informal gathering for socializing and networking. It was a positive, enthusiastic group of like-minded citizens who share a common purpose.

Without knowing the history and nature of these “freedom groups”, it was my impression that they represent a growing social phenomenon that has emerged out of concerns by average citizens about government overreach and the unchecked corporate and regulatory malfeasance that has been steadily creeping into virtually all areas of modern life.

All of the event’s attendees with whom I spoke had their own specific areas of concern. I learned that every group has its own unique mission. These folks came to with meeting, however, in the belief that establishing a province-wide network of like-minded people who are committed to building local, sustainable communities of self-sufficiency and voluntary exchange is a superior way to live. Each had suffered in one way or another under the growing regimes top-down central planning and the affects of unchecked corporate greed.

Under our so-called “democratic” governments…

Many attendees NO LONGER TRUST our elected representatives to shape a society in which they can be free of dependency on commercial products from global corporations such as food manufacturers and pharmaceutical giants who have burned their ‘public trust capital’ while amassing enormous profits. Many “preppers” attended that meeting and are vocal advocates for building a “parallel society” that would enable them to sidestep the politics regimes that control their options and choices. There wasn’t much interest in political action to change the government policies that restrict their rights and freedoms.

I had prepared a one page summary

I hand-delivered a summary of the proposal laid out in the Feb.8 Substack to all 100 attendees personally. I was also given a few minutes to present this idea to the audience and request volunteers, and explained that this initiative must be a team effort across Ontario if it was any chance of success. Two people agreed to volunteer even though nearly everyone expressed interest in the OSA concept.

As the former Chairman of the Ontario Libertatian Party who led the OLP’s effort to raise 116 candidates for Ontario’s 124 Electoral Ridings in the 2018 provincial election, I have first hand experience in undertaking a province-wide political objective. Now, at 71, I have little interest in spending my retirement years to take on a losing cause. Unless the OSA idea is embraced by a motivated organization of action-oriented volunteers, it can’t succeed. I had hoped the Elevate Community event, with it's ~ 65 freedom groups in attendance, would have fielded the kernal of that effort.

Thank you

To those of you who expressed interest and support, I thank you. Sadly, there are not enough of you to see the OSA vision realized.