During the campaign leading up to the March Albertan election, in an attempt to coordinate a discussion on a single topic within the blogosphere, I asked a number of other Albertan political blogs a question: “What is required to fix the state of democracy in Alberta”.
Alberta: Get Rich or Die Trying, Gauntlet.ca, Enlightened Savage, and Pierre Trudeau is My Homeboy all participated, and what followed was a discussion on the merits of different voting systems, PR, mandatory voting, and other methods of citizen engagement.
I’ve decided to revisit the idea, this time with a new question: If you were to suddenly become Prime Minister, and you had the potential to enact any policies you wanted (regardless of how “politically viable” they may or may not be), what would your top 3 priorities be, and how would you approach them?
From the economy, the environment, genocide, and the democratic deficit, there are no shortages of issues that deserve our attention, and there are a multitude of proposed solutions. I know that the readership of this little blog includes a smattering of (L/l)iberals, Dippers, libertarians, and even a few conservatives; so the question is: “what would you do?”
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The first thing I'd do would be repeal the Constitution and replace it with something a bit more usable. As it stands, there are several major problems with the Constitution that I'd need to change immediately. First, remove all references to God. Secondly, I'd ensure that the Constitution can actually be amended (as it stands right now, it isn't because really, can you ever seeing Alberta and Quebec agreeing on anything other than agreeing that the Feds are screwing them somehow?), to ensure we have a living document that can change as our country and the world changes.
The content in the Constitution would be your standard freedom-loving freedoms. Freedom of speech, press, religion, association, sexual orientation, etc. Give the right to vote to everybody, right to bear arms, etc.
I'd also slash the government. I'd really have to think on what I would consider 'essential' services, but Police and the Army would be one of the few remaining government agencies. I'd lower taxes to reflect the lower need of the government stealing your money. Obviously, some taxes would required to fund the remaining government programs.
While this is what I'd like to do, I realize that this sort of government would probably not work 'overnight', especially since Canadians feel entitled to many of the government programs that I'd eliminate. I just think that private development of these sorts of things would perform a better service.
You planning on posting that on your own blog?
I could.........
My response, blogified.
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