The first day of the Libertarian Party of Canada Convention is history. Lots of stimulating discussion. Sunday is for elections of new Board members and more discussion about the future of the Party.
I returned home from the LPoC Conference last nite, a four hour drive that offered much time to reflect on the weekend. Here are some highlights. (My apologies for not having all the new names at my fingertips.
Yesterday, Jacques Boudreau was unanimously re-elected as Leader. Rob W was elected as Deputy Leader.
Coreen Corcoran will hold her position as President.
The Board was reduced from nine positions to only four. Stephanie was re-elected to the Board. Three new members were elected. Too.
A new slate of 5 Ethics Committee members was chosen, including me.
The idea of creating a Shadow Cabinet in up to 20 members was raised and will be considered by the new Board in future meetings. I volunteered for the Climate Change portfolio because I wrote a book on the topic.
The LPoC’s Leadership and Board have three main goals to increase Membership, Money and Candidates. The Party is rebuilding itself from a poor showing in the last federal election that forms its baseline on metrics from which to grow. It will take careful and focused planning driven by realistic and achievable goals combined with new and creative thinking to make progress. Execution of plans is always the hard part because it takes work by unpaid volunteers to do “the heavy lifting”. I will be interested in seeing who among those elected this weekend will emerge as the spark plug to lead the efforts of people within the LPoC community to perform that work and get the desire results.
I, of course, am always available to discuss the LPoC’s plans and offer my ideas. In terms of actions, I am a writer today and plan to offer by skills in this area. Time will tell to see if I will be engaged by the new Leadership team to help in this regard. Of course, I plan to be an LPoC candidate for the 3rd time and may be a good spokesman for the LPoC to discuss this with anyone thinking about running as a Candidate.
It's a new day for the LPoC. May there be many sunny days ahead.
Gene, hope and pray for the LPoC to gain some percentage of a vote from Canadians as many of us are fed up with the runaway train that is Canada. Our debt is out of control, but our loss of FREEDOMS is what has me most concerned. None of the party leaders are speaking about this, other than Max of the PPC. If we don't speak up and stop the censorship that is happening we are in trouble...I don't recognize Canada anymore. There are still 4 innocent men from the Coutts blockade still in jail in Alberta I believe...let that sink in. When in our history did Canada ever have political prisoners????
EmEm, one key thought form. Trudeau is pushing the WEF agenda ! Trudeau and those working with him are getting away with this for as long as it takes people to wake up !
Dennis, your family opened your eyes to the psycho
nature they exude. We, those that see things of this nature can not change them. Lead by example and let them figure it out for themselves. Distance yourself as required.
As Gene points out, votes show trends. Maybe not enough, but change starts somewhere !
California's government just passed a bill raising the minimum wage to $20.00 per hour for fast food workers in chain restaurants. It sounds wonderful and those greedy big chains can certainly afford it.
Of course, it will likely force other independent restaurants to follow suit in order to retain staff. And shift supervisors and management which previously earned $20 will now what more as they rightly see themselves as deserving more than minimum wage.
So will restaurant owners "eat" the increased wages, or will the prices go up, or will some businesses fail because of this legislation that was tightly targeted at a specific employment class?
As long as people keep getting suckered by the "do-gooders", big government will never go away, I'm afraid.
"less government" doesn't highlight the problem. The problem isn't the _size_ of it. Countries also can't go "bankrupt" - they have money printers.
I don't think skirting around the real issue (the evil, the violence, the brutality, the slavery), to try to trick people, basically, works. I also think they already know, everyone already knows how sausages are made.
I don't know how to convince someone to stop being an evil psycho. I wasn't even able to get my own parents and siblings to stop being that, not even my twin sister, not a single person from my entire family.
Dennis. I plan to finish my my book on Cronyism this winter. It is an overview of modern Economics and how it has been shaped and by whom. The size, cost and scope of authority is at the centre of economic power which I have metaphorically called the political HONEY POT.
I hope that you read it when I publish it as a Kindle ebook on Amazon. It will likely influence how you think about the changes that are occurring today.
In the meanwhile, you may be interested in my published Kindle citizen white paper call DIGITAL DIRECT DEMOCRACY - A Libertarian Antidote to Digital Communism. It is only 36 Kindle pages, but it describes the trend of increasing authoritarianism through government control of our monetary system and excessive regulatory authority, and it offers a way for citizens to opt-in and opt-out of specific government programs such as is those created and enforced by the Climate Change Governmental Complex (CCGC).
FYI the CCGC is described in my first Kindle ebook What To Do About CLIMATE CHANGE, A Libertarian Proposal.
I returned home from the LPoC Conference last nite, a four hour drive that offered much time to reflect on the weekend. Here are some highlights. (My apologies for not having all the new names at my fingertips.
Yesterday, Jacques Boudreau was unanimously re-elected as Leader. Rob W was elected as Deputy Leader.
Coreen Corcoran will hold her position as President.
The Board was reduced from nine positions to only four. Stephanie was re-elected to the Board. Three new members were elected. Too.
A new slate of 5 Ethics Committee members was chosen, including me.
The idea of creating a Shadow Cabinet in up to 20 members was raised and will be considered by the new Board in future meetings. I volunteered for the Climate Change portfolio because I wrote a book on the topic.
The LPoC’s Leadership and Board have three main goals to increase Membership, Money and Candidates. The Party is rebuilding itself from a poor showing in the last federal election that forms its baseline on metrics from which to grow. It will take careful and focused planning driven by realistic and achievable goals combined with new and creative thinking to make progress. Execution of plans is always the hard part because it takes work by unpaid volunteers to do “the heavy lifting”. I will be interested in seeing who among those elected this weekend will emerge as the spark plug to lead the efforts of people within the LPoC community to perform that work and get the desire results.
I, of course, am always available to discuss the LPoC’s plans and offer my ideas. In terms of actions, I am a writer today and plan to offer by skills in this area. Time will tell to see if I will be engaged by the new Leadership team to help in this regard. Of course, I plan to be an LPoC candidate for the 3rd time and may be a good spokesman for the LPoC to discuss this with anyone thinking about running as a Candidate.
It's a new day for the LPoC. May there be many sunny days ahead.
Gene, hope and pray for the LPoC to gain some percentage of a vote from Canadians as many of us are fed up with the runaway train that is Canada. Our debt is out of control, but our loss of FREEDOMS is what has me most concerned. None of the party leaders are speaking about this, other than Max of the PPC. If we don't speak up and stop the censorship that is happening we are in trouble...I don't recognize Canada anymore. There are still 4 innocent men from the Coutts blockade still in jail in Alberta I believe...let that sink in. When in our history did Canada ever have political prisoners????
EmEm, one key thought form. Trudeau is pushing the WEF agenda ! Trudeau and those working with him are getting away with this for as long as it takes people to wake up !
Dennis, your family opened your eyes to the psycho
nature they exude. We, those that see things of this nature can not change them. Lead by example and let them figure it out for themselves. Distance yourself as required.
As Gene points out, votes show trends. Maybe not enough, but change starts somewhere !
California's government just passed a bill raising the minimum wage to $20.00 per hour for fast food workers in chain restaurants. It sounds wonderful and those greedy big chains can certainly afford it.
Of course, it will likely force other independent restaurants to follow suit in order to retain staff. And shift supervisors and management which previously earned $20 will now what more as they rightly see themselves as deserving more than minimum wage.
So will restaurant owners "eat" the increased wages, or will the prices go up, or will some businesses fail because of this legislation that was tightly targeted at a specific employment class?
As long as people keep getting suckered by the "do-gooders", big government will never go away, I'm afraid.
"less government" doesn't highlight the problem. The problem isn't the _size_ of it. Countries also can't go "bankrupt" - they have money printers.
I don't think skirting around the real issue (the evil, the violence, the brutality, the slavery), to try to trick people, basically, works. I also think they already know, everyone already knows how sausages are made.
I don't know how to convince someone to stop being an evil psycho. I wasn't even able to get my own parents and siblings to stop being that, not even my twin sister, not a single person from my entire family.
Dennis. I plan to finish my my book on Cronyism this winter. It is an overview of modern Economics and how it has been shaped and by whom. The size, cost and scope of authority is at the centre of economic power which I have metaphorically called the political HONEY POT.
I hope that you read it when I publish it as a Kindle ebook on Amazon. It will likely influence how you think about the changes that are occurring today.
In the meanwhile, you may be interested in my published Kindle citizen white paper call DIGITAL DIRECT DEMOCRACY - A Libertarian Antidote to Digital Communism. It is only 36 Kindle pages, but it describes the trend of increasing authoritarianism through government control of our monetary system and excessive regulatory authority, and it offers a way for citizens to opt-in and opt-out of specific government programs such as is those created and enforced by the Climate Change Governmental Complex (CCGC).
FYI the CCGC is described in my first Kindle ebook What To Do About CLIMATE CHANGE, A Libertarian Proposal.
Thanks for your comments.n