A free public service offered by Paul Kemp - Central Nova - Nova Scotia There are ten steps, or stages, to the evolution of a practical and efficient form of representative government, and these are: 1. Freedom of the person. Slavery, serfdom, and all forms of human bondage must disappear. 2. Freedom of the mind. Unless a free people are educated -- taught to think intelligently and plan wisely -- freedom usually does more harm than good. 3. The reign of law. Liberty can be enjoyed only when the will and whims of human rulers are replaced by legislative enactments in accordance with accepted fundamental law. 4. Freedom of speech. Representative government is unthinkable without freedom of all forms of expression for human aspirations and opinions. 5. Security of property. No government can long endure if it fails to provide for the right to enjoy personal property in some form. Man craves the right to use, control, bestow, sell, lease, and bequeath his personal property. 6. The right of petition. Representative government assumes the right of citizens to be heard. The privilege of petition is inherent in free citizenship. 7. The right to rule. It is not enough to be heard; the power of petition must progress to the actual management of the government. 8. Universal suffrage. Representative government presupposes an intelligent, efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a government will ever be determined by the character and caliber of those who compose it. As civilization progresses, suffrage, while remaining universal for both sexes, will be effectively modified, regrouped, and otherwise differentiated. 9. Control of public servants. No civil government will be serviceable and effective unless the citizenry possess and use wise techniques of guiding and controlling officeholders and public servants. 10. Intelligent and trained representation. The survival of democracy is dependent on successful representative government; and that is conditioned upon the practice of electing to public offices only those individuals who are technically trained, intellectually competent, socially loyal, and morally fit. Only by such provisions can government of the people, by the people, and for the people be preserved.
 

 

 

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Friends of Canadian Broadcasting

Dear Canadian Citizen,

Don Newman, Brian Stewart, John McGrath, and hundreds more.

In all, 350 of CBC's on air icons and creative staff got their pink slip or buy-out package last week. These individuals, the heart and soul of what we cherish about CBC, will soon disappear from Canadian radio and television. Some of them are young people, recently recruited, who should be the future of public broadcasting. And that's just the start.

This mass exodus of CBC's most experienced and skilled professionals has been provoked by Stephen Harper's shameful agenda to denigrate our national public broadcaster.

Only the strength and the support of all of us who care passionately about Canadian public broadcasting can prevent Harper and company from tearing the CBC limb from limb. This means you and I have much work to do together.

Will you step up and help FRIENDS defend the CBC and public broadcasting in Canada?

If your answer is yes, please donate right now.

FRIENDS is now preparing for the next election. We are planning the largest and most determined campaign we've ever mounted in the defense of public broadcasting.

If the hostile policies of the Harper government can strip the CBC of some of its best and most promising talent today, imagine what would happen if Harper were to win a majority.

We have got to make sure that whoever forms the next government knows that the CBC must be supported and strengthened. Canadians demand nothing less.

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The abolishment of the Publics Broadcasting System is a direct assault upon your right as a citizen to be informed. The Main Stream Media (MSM) fully understands the need for propaganda and misinformation in keeping the general population ignorant of national facts, needs and goals so come election time we are unaware of the real issues facing the nation throughout the next electoral period.

Democracy is dependent on an informed citizenry. The attempt by your government to diminish your information sources while they give increasing support to their own spin agendas, is a sign of a retrograde government . Plutocracy is not a true representative government. It is the fortunate and wealthy few ruling over the unfortunate many. Plutocracy is not a conspiracy, it is a fact of history. True representative government with an informed citizenry is the only power on earth that can forever checkmate Plutocracy.

Be informed.

Paul Kemp

President of the National Executive
Canadian Action Party

 

 

 

 
 

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