Personal Political Manifesto
I think it is a fabulous idea to write your own personal political manifesto. Am
I the only one that gets annoyed when leaders speak,” on behalf of all Canadians
or Ontarians.” How is that even possible? What I learned through the US election
is that mass media is tilting society towards ‘crazy town’ and trying to throw
us into separate camps. The best way to avoid group polarization is to march to
the beat of your own drum, have your own set of values and a political manifesto
to adhere to. Now I can focus on the issues I care about without getting lost in
the weeds?
I can lay all my cards on the table because I am irrelevant. I am an
ordinary, unseen member of society with the right to cast my vote and voice my
quibbles. I have nothing to gain and nothing to lose. I cannot get cancelled.
Just a regular schmo. I am not going to get elected or hired or fired. I will
not lose my job or position. I have no coworkers to posture around. I have no
power or authority. I have no group or following I am beholden too or reputation
to protect. I have the right to change my mind. My real friends do not care what
my political views are, and my family is stuck with me.
1. What Ontario Health
is doing to address the opioid and mental health crisis among teenagers.
2.
Protecting free healthcare available to all Canadians and promoting Ontario
Hospitals and the amazing care my loved ones have received from our doctors and
nurses.
3. I care that Health Canada and Ontario Ministry of Health continue to
allow the tobacco industry to manufacture an addictive poison sold on every
street 24 hours a day 7 days a week killing 45,000 Canadians every year, without
an activist approach to stop it. They are placing a tremendous burden on our
healthcare system that spends 6.5 billion a year fighting the disease of tobacco
addiction and impoverishing our country and families.
4. I care about indigenous
rights and racism in Canada and holding police to higher standards including,
and especially, the RCMP.
5. I have not forgotten that Justin Trudeau demoted
the past Attorney General, Jody Wilson-Raybold to Veterans affairs due to her
lack of cooperation after attempting to pressure her about SNC Lavalin.
6. We
must protect freedom of expression and censorship is a slippery slope.
7. I care
that mass media and social media are tilting society towards crazy town and
think ‘an eyes wide open campaign’ would be a great benefit.
8. I care that
tuition rates are climbing at universities in the middle of a pandemic when
school is 100% online.
9. I care about wasteful public spending on a myriad of
under-utilized, over-funded and ineffective programs such as labor and social
services.
10. I care that there are 76 Public School board offices in Ontario
when all that money could be spent on healthcare.
11. ALL ministers provincially
and federally should be held accountable to their high paying positions,
inactions, and screw ups such as the Minister of long-term care, Merrilee
Fullerton.
12. I care what the Department of Fisheries and Ocean’s does to
address the dispute between Firsts Nations and private fisheries on the east
coast and why it was not done sooner.
13. I am waiting for Justin Trudeau to
handle the issue with the Governor General of Canada, the over spender and
workplace bully.
14. I care that billionaires and corporations are offshoring
their wealth to avoid paying taxes.
15. I care about stiffer penalties for
people who perpetuate crimes of violence against children and animals.
16. I
care about climate change and I think a price on carbon makes total sense.
17.
Incentivizing capitalism to come up with green solutions is the right approach.
18. I care what happens to our trade relations with China and the US. That
Canada’s Foreign policy is important to our country and its economic survival.
Am I the Only One? November 30th, Hometown News 2020
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