Canada elections 2008, Part II
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Part I of the p2pnet party platforms feature outlines Conservative, Liberal, NDP, Green and Bloc Quebecois policies.
Part II includes policy statements from:
Christian Heritage party of Canada
Communist party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
Libertarian party of Canada
»»» Christian Heritage party of Canada
Better Solutions for the Economy
The CHP would put Canada back to work with a nationwide infrastructure stimulus package that would fix our cities, our highways and our bridges.
Eliminate the income tax and implement a ‘Fair Tax’ that would boost the economy and put Canadians in charge of the tax they pay.
Overhaul the broken Canada Pension Plan with a new Personal Income Security Account.
The CHP would eliminate the national debt which is currently at $600 billion dollars.
Better Solutions for Life and Family
The CHP is the only pro-life party in Canada today. From conception, to natural death, every life is precious.
Promote adoption, not abortion.
Protect unborn victims of crime.
Defend marriage and the family by calling a Royal Commission to study the issue.
Prevent Euthanasia–The Netherlands experience, where official acquiescence became legalization, and led eventually to thousands of murders each year, shows clearly that we should not follow that path, but must retain the Criminal Code sanctions against “assisted suicide” and other forms of euthanasia.
Introduce Family-friendly Childcare Allowance—$1,000 a month for families where one parent stays home to raise the children.
Better Solutions for Healthcare
Overhaul the health care system – wait times are too long.
Improve delivery of services.
Revamp hospital design.
Improve Access to medical technologies.
Promote healthy lifestyle choices.
Better Solutions for the Environment
Real protection for our air and water, solutions that encourage good, proactive stewardship practices.
Promote renewable energy initiatives.
Better Solutions for the Environment
Real protection for our air and water, solutions that encourage good, proactive stewardship practices.Promote renewable energy initiatives.
Better Solutions to Defend Your Rights
Defend against Human Rights Commission attacks on free speech.
Protect conscience rights.
Defend democracy and the constitution.
Legislation to enshrine private property rights which Canadians currently do not have.
Affirm the right to protect home and family.
»»» Programme of the Communist party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
CPC(M-L) believes that all aspects of political, economic and social life in Canada need renewal. This can be brought about only if the people are sovereign. They can exercise their sovereignty only if the fundamental law of the land vests sovereignty in the people and if the institutions and laws of Canada guarantee it. Canadians have expressed their wish for modern arrangements on many occasions, as they did clearly during the Spicer Commission hearings. They have repeatedly said that they need to take measures and begin working towards affirming their sovereignty and creating the required renewed institutions. They also see the need to take the same approach towards the problems of the economy which is in deep crisis. This crisis has become chronic, creating a jobless recovery and general insecurity. The same is the case with the political process which marginalizes the people and reduces them to the role of voting cattle.
The people of Canada must deal also with the problems of culture and national sovereignty: working for the formation of a free and equal union between the nation of Quebec, the nations of the Aboriginal peoples and the rest of Canada, and building a truly multicultural society in which the languages and cultures of all Canadians are given official recognition and are encouraged to flourish.
The principle that all people have claims on the society by virtue of being human must be held as the overriding principle of the society, along with gender equality and freedom of conscience and lifestyle. A new, modern, truly democratic society in which people are sovereign is the urgent requirement for Canadians to enter the 21st century free of the legacy of the country’s 19th century colonial foundation.
The creation of such a society is the immediate aim of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), consistent with its long-term aim of creating a socialist society as the transition to communism, which will usher in a classless society.
»»» Libertarian party of Canada
[NOTE - This party has a long and extensive platform and we've selected the items we believe may be of immediate interest to the online P2P People to People community.]
Freedom of Speech
We support total freedom of speech, conscience and opinion – with the exception of threats of violence.
We oppose legislation and international agreements that interfere with speech and which criminalize opinions, however incorrect or misguided those opinions may be.
We reject the culture of control that tramples Canada’s heritage of free speech.
We reject government regulation of broadcasting along with its power to license stations.
As with other resources, use of the airwaves should be based on first-use and should be traded on the free market as private property.
We reject cultural protectionism and other government efforts to regulate content.
Internet Freedom
We will defend against all attacks on Internet freedom, for example legislation that requires Internet Service Providers to install “wire-tapping” technology, legislation that targets political advocacy, legislation that attempts to tax the Internet, or other requirements or mandates to use particular communications or encryption standards.
We call on Canadians to exert pressure on government, Internet service providers, telecommunications companies, universities and other institutions to maintain Internet freedom.
Intellectual Property
We support a moderate approach to patents and copyrights and urge a careful review of existing and proposed legislation and international agreements, and the ethical issues and the consequences involved.
Intellectual property laws should never violate the principles of basic justice and become instruments of oppression.
Penalties for Intellectual Property offences should never be out of proportion to the offence, and should be left for the courts to determine.
Canadians should develop their own approach to Intellectual Property independently of foreign nations.
Canada should not seek to impose its own Intellectual Property laws on other nations except by representation in foreign courts, just as Canadian courts should be open to foreign complaints.
Courts and juries should decide penalties and their decisions should help develop Intellectual Property law.
In the case of simultaneous inventions, it’s not clear that monopoly protection should be granted to only one person or business.
Extreme patent developments should be open to question and challenges, such as patenting existing processes, genetically modified life-forms or existing life forms.
Unwanted genetically modified organisms or other high-tech contamination of private property, including crops or livestock, must be treated as a trespass, and the person or organization spreading the contaminating substance should be liable to penalties rather than the person receiving the contamination.
Surveillance Society
We reject the concept of the surveillance society as another symptom of the false belief that government owns the lives of Canadians, that their lives are not their own.
The surveillance society is made more likely by recent developments in technology. As an example, we reject any legal requirements that mandate the installation of any kind of monitoring devices in cars or other products.
We reject mandatory national ID’s or imposed standards for biometrics that require a person to submit personal information such as fingerprints or retina scans in order to obtain a driver’s license.
We reject any other imposed government standard that limits or licenses the ability of people to travel freely within Canada and participate in the economy.
We would abolish the Social Insurance Number and all requirements for its use.
In a free society, nobody should be required to surrender data of any kind except what is necessary by mutual consent for trade between individuals.
For government services, citizens and immigrants can be supplied with receipts for paid taxes or fees. A temporary pass-code or private account number can identify the individual. The identification process in every case should be left open to negotiation.
No laws shall mandate the silencing of Internet service providers, telecommunications companies, libraries or other organizations or citizens, that prevent them from informing their customers of investigations into their records.
We reject government agencies spying on peaceful citizens in any way. This includes the monitoring of private communications or restrictions on the use of digital encryption.
We completely reject the monitoring of financial transactions, which the Canadian government currently subjects its citizens to. See here.
No internal checkpoints for travelers will be acceptable, and no requirements by businesses to report customer information to government agencies will be acceptable.
More to come – stay tuned …..
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October 8th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
The Libertarians also have a good handle on internet issues, which is no surprise. If I were Canadian I’d probably vote Libertarian or NDP depending on what riding I was in (accounting for the spoiler effect).
A simple (albeit technical) description of what the Libertarians (and NDP) are saying is that we (US, CA, UK, NL, DE, FR, SE, NO, BR and any other country that believes in freedom of speech) need a law something like this:
That simple paragraph prohibits the blatant privacy invasions such as Phorm and NebuAd, and also prohibits censorship (traffic management / throttling) technologies such as those used by Comcast, Rogers, and Bell Canada.
This is what we need, but I’m not holding my breath.
More on this coming.
SRG
October 8th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I should have also pointed out that the proposed law paragraph is a technical description of network neutrality. This is why I think that net neutrality is so important. It prevents all of the blatant garbage that we have observed the past few years.