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Submission CARBERRY-0671 (Online)

Submission By Ronald Carberry
AddressDuncan, BC,
Organization
Date20040617
CategoryDemocratic government
Abstract
We, the people, are the investors, and we want to hire individuals to run our province.  Ministers should be chosen directly by the people; only the representatives with the best qualifications will be chosen by the people. [2 pages]

Submission Content
For many years I, like others. know that the form of government that exists, is a poor method of democracy.

We all know that the party with the most elected candidates does not represent the majority of the people.  The winning political party forms the government and the leader of the party becomes the dictator with his appointed cabinet, becoming his henchman and the rest of the elected winning party become desk thumpers.  They have no chance to represent their riding.  If we are to have a democratic system, let us change the way we vote.

This is my idea for reform.  We, the people, are the investors,  and we want to hire individuals to run our province.  These personnel are to be chosen by us by the voting system.  The government should be run like any business.  When an enterprise business requires top help, they advertise  for individuals for the positions.  All businesses have directors which will advertise for the position required.

These positions will be advertised as follows, namely, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Health, Minister of Finance and so on.  At least ten applicants will be chosen by the directors to be presented to the people to vote on to fill the position.  The individual with the most votes becomes the top minister.  The second replaces him if the first pick is sick and unable to perform his duty. 

Only those representatives with the best qualifications will be chosen by the people.  The director will give each chosen selected successful applicant a sum of money for him to meet the people and present themselves to the chosen voters.  This way there will be no money given by corporations or individuals.  The candidates must be fully qualified for the job applied for.  They cannot be shuffled from one minister position to another.  We would not higher a plumber to do electrical work as the government does today.  When the directors are ready for matters of government, they have a full debate to voted on by all representatives of the elected body.  The final selection will be by the people for the next four years, who are the shareholders for democracy.

The directors will be elected by the people who have served their Municipality, Province and Federal Governments  in the past with distinction.

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