Canada will be next to open doors to democratic governance

By Letter to the Editor on October 13, 2017.

Colonial rule is history.

It went out the door with the Second World War.

The Pacific Charter spelled the end of a long and ugly period of rape and plunder of resources on a global scale, and paved the way for people to exercise their right to self-determination, and to live as free people.

Colonizing is now taboo, and the doors are wide open for societies to accept and embrace our basic human rights to elect free and democratic governments.

Colonial-style political systems were established to rule the colonies, and politicians were elected to make decisions.

In democratic societies, the people make the decisions, and we elect politicians to implement them.

That means goodbye to the Harpers of the world, who embraced what they insisted were their colonial prerogatives to destroy the democratic process in our federal Parliament, and turn the prime minister’s office (PMO) into a political control centre.

It also means goodbye to the Trudeau obsessions with transforming Canada into a Cuban-style socialist society, where they would continue to enjoy a lifestyle of unchallenged powers out of reach of the people.

More than 80 per cent of OECD countries use a proportional voting system and have democratic governments that are controlled by the people, not the politicians.

Canada is next.

The B.C. coalition government will give the people a proportional ballot, and we can say goodbye to all those fake majority governments that have represented as few as 29 per cent of the popular vote.

We will no longer be an embarrassment to the world as we close the doors on that dog-and-pony show called Question Period, while we open the doors to democratic governance, where the people tell the elected members how to vote.

Our politicians absolutely hate that, and are fighting it tooth-and-nail, but — this is a war they cannot win.