Powershift and types of Democracies

Thank you so much for the response!

Agree with most of what you say

I believe it will be up to the company who has the best bid to put the tie down for the railway track and to coordinate its construction.

And I guess that's the tough part. Out of 338 federal constituencies, each one will have their mini local parliaments of elected members (constituency parliaments) (a 1,000-person ward elects 1 CP member, so for every 100,000 citizens/indigenous people, their local parliament is 100 CP members). They get together for 1 full month once/yr to decide on major policy issues, then take these decisions to the elected MP. But are we getting ahead of ourselves?

This will never eliminate the inherent human qualities we have for differing views & opinions - especially balancing b/w those who believe in self-responsibility vs those with a social/take care of everyone in my community beliefs. As you say, the work still has to be done - by whom is the question. As you're probably aware, the majority of canadians over the last several decades have been indoctrinated to believe that the gov't should take care of them and their problems.

So when the CPs reach a decision, it will always be the majority rules, which is the point in a democracy. But what happens when the majority decides to take away my property? Or if the majority tells me I have to inject a liquid in my body? Are there basic principles that we adhere to? The Charter of Rights? Meaning, can a decision be final for the "sake of the group" when it violates the rights of the individual?

Another observation is that when you read through the 11 Treaties, the Indigenous People never wanted to be in the Federal Government system as equals. They wanted to live their lives their own way, on their own terms. They were willing to share the land, but the settlers came with their "land owner" mentality. So land negotiations were attempted to achieve those means. Yet basic but major conceptual differences render this almost impossible - some First Nations believed no one "owned" land, it belonged to the earth itself; others were upset having been there first and already living on the land, that the settlers just came and started profiting off it without any talks.

So really, my basic question is, how can group democracy ever solve the basic issues of SELF-determination and SELF-governance?

What decisions need to be made by the Collective People as the HEAD OF STATE?

It may be that we as canadians (citizens and indigenous people) need to first decide what is the role of gov't in our lives.

But how do we start deciding that? Or maybe that's the first issue to be discussed by the mini local parliaments, the members of the CPs? And once that's decided, then we can actually figure out how big gov't needs to be, because for sure numerous departments will have to be shut down - federal, provincial and municipal.

Thank you again, I appreciate the interaction!

It is not about being better represented in Ottawa, it is about us in control. The work still has to be done by someone - instructions and coordination for projects. Will you put the tie down for the railway track, or will you require someone to coordinate for its construction across the country, so to speak. There will be less government, especially the part we do not see... those that make decisions and are not elected will not be there because they will no longer be needed. Read Vaughan Lyon's book and you will understand. I can't explain it more than that. The book is an easy, interesting read and has a history that has been hidden from us as well.

Warmest regards,

I'm not so sure the goal should be to be "better represented in Ottawa", because that shouldn't be an issue anymore as the Final Decision-Making Authority will come from we the people.

An observation that I learned from someone, if the farmer waited for the gov't to tell him/her when and how to sow, all of us would die of hunger. We are capable of making our own decisions. The idea should be to have MUCH LESS gov't in our daily lives.

Trying to “equalize everything“ throughout the provinces to be better represented in Ottawa would be a feat by itself... we already know that rep-by-pop has failed us all by now. It created divisions, and still does, between “wannabes” provinces and our perennial powerhouses.

When we first started down this path of finding out how government really works in Canada and the different legislation and loopholes available to us...in 2008...the term "direct democracy" was used. However, over years of research and learning, we now know that what our solution gives us is actually many types of democracy...with all of us across our nation weighing in, as a whole, in ways that can ensure that every province has equal representation in that one or two provinces cannot dominate the rest. Two provinces have, for all of our history, dominated all of Canada...Ontario and Quebec. This was done on purpose, which is why both Ontario and Quebec have equal representation within the Senate, with every other province having much less representation. This is also why election reform has never been allowed to happen in full, giving other provinces equal representation to that of Quebec and Ontario.

What the PowerShift does is start to fix this inequality. We, as a whole, would be able to ensure that every province has equal representation with the needs of each province being addressed in ways that are not just based on population. There would also be a lot of changes for Indigenous People, who for the first time, would be in the Federal Government system as equals...instead of inside a silo that is kept separate and tightly controlled.

Direct Democracy is a term thrown about as a finite end. However, it really is just a catch-all term for many types of different democracy that have not been allowed to take root in politics or parliamentary systems. It is these other types of democracy that we are about growing:

• Policy Democracy

• Provincial Democracy

• Community Democracy

***Basically the constituents and people within communities discussing what is needed to fix the issues in their own backyards...and then the different levels of government actually listening. So issues are fixed as a whole community...not waiting for government to fix things, or giving government total control over everything. We are about a level of democracy that ensures we have good responsible government that we are able to work with...instead of governments that legislate and dictate, with no real understanding of how their decisions affect all of Canada. ....and to repeat myself...this means many different types of democracy, that actually involves us...the citizens and indigenous people...taking active roles so governments can never again push us out of the decision making processes that affect our lives, our country and the futures of generations to come. I hope this answered your question. Also...something we've found, is that those most opposed to changing the type of democracy we have in Canada, and allowing us to be an active part of it, are those that are vested in it remaining the same...in some way.