<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div>I listened with interest to Brian Peckford’s impassioned defence of our democracy here in Canada. It was lovely. He was talking about how our governments have become something very different than true and real expressions of the will of the people. On the occasion he did refer to the mandates he decried the lack of debate and discussion about the decision. He was arguing for a return to the ideals of a liberal, representative democracy that we believe we have here in Canada.<div><br></div><div>BUT!!!!, isn’t the question WHY? Why have things become as they are? What is meant by the swamp? What is the situation we are fighting? Isn’t it that politics has been overtaken by economic concerns? Our almost total (except maybe a bit for Covid) preoccupation with the economy, the market, business failures and/or growth, austerity, regulation/deregulation, lobbyists, high/low taxes, inflation, and on and on it goes. The freedom and liberty Peckford speaks of is in the context of a vital, active democracy that makes decisions for the good of all the people, not just the few. It’s freedom to serve the common good is it not?</div><div> </div><div>What I read of the Atlantic article on Singularity is right in step with this too I believe.</div><div><br></div><div>Remo</div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 3, 2022, at 9:30 AM, Arthur Blomme via craic <craic@lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>This past Saturday i attended a convoy rally of about 2000 people
in Victoria. My experience was quite different to that depicted
on the Billionaire owned media. The focus was quite clear. This
protest is abpout the suspension of our 1982 constitution. <br>
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addresses convoy rally on steps of BC legislature in Victoria
Saturday. The last living drafter and signatory of the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms, announces lawsuit against the
Canadian federal government over its travel ban for the
unvaccinated.
Canadian Radlibs in lockstep with Trudeau calling the
unvaccinated ‘racists', ’fascists', ‘misogynists, ‘anti-science’
and ‘extremist,’ and his musing, ‘do we tolerate these people?’
it became clear he is sowing divisions and advancing his
vendetta against a specific group of Canadians,”</div>
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