I am concerned that the Citizens' Assembly has been charged with
gathering input regarding types of camels. BC needs to
review who and how many we allow to govern and may need a
completely different type of animal.
Example; we have 8 times the provincial representatives as the
State of California. We do not need that many politicians in the
modern world of communications. We have gone from 75 prior to the
last election, to 79 in the last election and an estimated 81 for
the next. This is all compliments of an Electoral Boundaries Act
that was conceived about a hundred years ago.
In a time when everyone must do more with less we have the anomaly
of growing bloated numbers of political representation.
Your Assembly has not been given any parameters to look at the
automatic increments in the Electoral Boundaries Act or to
recommend governance changes to address the vast inequities of
gender balance in government. I think your Assembly's time may have
been better spent considering the relatively ineffective and
wasteful representatives who lack statesmanship and do not seem to
be useful for anything other than representing their particular
party and special interest groups.
Nor have you the opportunity to review the three levels of
governance and the growing power of the new city states in BC.
The question of costly and wasteful duplicated governing between
Federal, Provincial and Municipal Poobaas is not addressed as well.
Nor will it ever be by the people at the trough.
Our youth and thinking electorate have increasingly abandoned the
system (low voter participation) as a result of the inherent
corruption of party politics. Who really wants to participate in
such a manipulative exercise?
Democracy is broke!
Premier Campbell is allowing your Assembly to put a little lipstick
on those tired old hookers, the various political machines of
BC.
My submission is that democracy can only gain back some lustre by
attacking the waste of 79 representatives (soon to be 81) games
players who use the resources of our Province for self
aggrandizement while eroding services to the people who need
them.
They say we can't afford health, education or seniors services, I
wonder just who we can't and shouldn't afford? I think we should
look closely and we will see that like the fable of Hans Christian
Anderson our wasteful "Emperor" has no clothes.
When you have designed a two hump camel (proportional
representation) or one hump camel (1st past the post) you may find
that only considering camels may have limited your Assembly from
dealing with more needed work. By the way, between the two camels I
prefer the former.
I know I used the analogy of camels but your Machiavellian
governmental excise may have also been to chase red herrings.
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