I am happy to vote on anything, municipal decisions, Provincial or Federal. No reason that I should have to trust in representation to participate in democracy for me. This system was useful when people did not have at home access to instant-communication technology and is made redundant by technology as old as the home-phone line.
There is no good argument today for a lack of government transparency or lack of individual access to participate in decision making. Anyone can make a graph to show what decisions might look like fiscally and anyone can vote/respond to an e-mail. Our system exists as it is today for the soul purpose of protecting the corporations. Elected representation to the degree that it is practiced in Canada is unnecessary and it is an invitation to corruption and bias in decision making.
Any politician who says otherwise is pulling the wool over your eyes!
this steaming pile of poorly written crap is true. not pushing for some technocratic nerd garbage but saying a real democracy would include the will of all affected parties if it could, and it can - we all own cellphones, we all can participate in democracy by voting.
ReplyDeleteIn the olden days the democratic process required that people had representation as it would take extended periods of time away from home/work to conduct meetings and vote on policies.
Now that any persons opinion can be included instantly there is no more reason to maintain the same degree of representation which has been relatively constant throughout multiple technological revolutions