When the Government signs away sovereignty the patriots must revolt.

When the Government signs away sovereignty the patriots must revolt.

There is no justification for including investor-state dispute in the FIPA.


http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/09/15/China-Investment-Treaty-Breakdown/?utm_source=fb-page-editor-post&utm_medium=fb-page&utm_campaign=fb-09-2014

There is no justification for including investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in either the CETA or the TTIP.
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/investor-state-dispute-settlement-ttip-and-ceta


As a friend, conservative and Harper supporter told me, revolution is the only way to change our system of elected dictatorship.

There are 2 ways to replace Harper
- Stand up against big international pre-election money and bring democracy
- Or embrace to the international money even more than Harper which I don't think is even possible

The trying to embrace pre-election campaign money and democracy is embracing democracy without accountability. And exactly what Harper is best at.


Elections Laws are about the most important of all laws in a Democracy. 
Elections Laws determine the who is elected and who they are accountable to.

The conservatives changes to elections laws, makes it difficult for students and more mobile people to vote.
Banning elections Canada from its duty of informing Canadians how to vote. And enabling uncapped spending for political parties to bring out their supporters, through the $20 exception. Preventing Elections Canada from launching immediate investigations into electoral fraud, dramatically reducing/effectively eliminating any real punishment for over spending.

http://www.slaw.ca/2014/02/09/why-the-conservatives-fair-elections-act-could-be-unconstitutional/

http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ca_1867.html


Canada's election flawed laws are the reason we not able to obtain a Good Government. If you are in doubt for a second about this. Look at the FIFA, TPP and CETA investment treaties. These are secret agreement and are particularly harmful because it denies public access to arbitration case decisions miss-leading the public into believing their government is able to exercise sovereign powers.

There are 2 ways to replace Harper
Stand up against big international pre-election money and bring democracy
Or embrace to the international money even more than Harper which I don't think is even possible

Trying to embrace pre-election campaign money and democracy is embracing democracy without accountability. And exactly what Harper is best at.

The solution is monitoring and regulating pre-election direct and indirect advertising spending.

Corruption and democracy: Political finances - conflicts of interest -
lobbying - justice (2008)

Harper's Conservative Corruption of the Canadian Supreme Court Judicial selection process.

Harper's Conservatives changed the Canadian Supreme Court Judicial selection process to enable the federal government to remove all candidate Supreme Court Judicial who are NOT favourable towards the federal government leadership and who are less likely to hold the federal government leadership accountable.

“the majority of voting members are now appointed by the minister” and the judicial appointments advisory committees “may neither be, nor be seen to be, fully independent of the government.”

Former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant is more blunt about where the decision is actually made: “the responsibility for judicial appointments is well entrenched in the PMO.”



The following attached article starts out rather dry and uninteresting until you get to the section about Selecting the selectors. Please bare in mind this article directs towards a legal framework to challenge the corrupted Canadian Supreme Court Judicial selection process. Please remember this when reading this article
The only public guideline to choosing appointment committee members is that “the Minister of Justice attempts to reflect factors appropriate to each jurisdiction including geography, language, multiculturalism, and gender.”
canadianlawyermag.com/5266/Cracking-the-system

In late 2006, the Conservative government rewrote the rules for the composition of the committees. Now each regional committee consists of eight members:

•     a nominee of the provincial or territorial law society;

•     a nominee of the provincial or territorial branch of the Canadian Bar Association;

•     a judge nominated by the chief justice of the province or by the senior judge of the territory;

•     a nominee of the provincial attorney general or territorial minister of justice;

•     a nominee of the law enforcement community; and,

•     three nominees of the federal minister of justice representing the general public.

In 2006, the Conservative government added the nominee from the law enforcement community, who is also chosen ad hoc by the federal government.

Support Innovation through Access to Shared Spectrum

Support innovation through access to shared spectrum

"The hoarding of spectrum is a barrier to rural broadband" 

And the lack of price competitive wireless leaves Canada at a disadvantage with reduced business and growth opportunities. 

http://rspg-spectrum.eu/_documents/documents/meeting/rspg19/rspg09_278_erg_rspg_report_on_radio_spectrum_competition_issues_090604.pdf

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/wireless-auction-wont-do-much-for-competition-2014-01-13

Spectrum Auctions are anti-competitive.

"A monopoly-like situation in some frequency bands ... lead to a similar (monopoly-like)
competitive structure on the down-stream markets."

http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/rural-users-lose-when-spectrum-is-hoarded-experts/47863

Spectrum Sharing for mobile and wireless data services opens the market to new entry and greater competition.

Spectrum sharing can be based on:

- Separating the ownership of cell towers from wireless cell phone companies. With separate ownership of the cell towers all wireless cell phone companies would have access to all wireless spectrum bands.
The separately owned cell towers would sell bandwidth access to all wireless cell phone companies.

The biggest obstacle to the separate ownership of cell towers from wireless cell phone companies are incumbent cell phone companies who enjoy monopolistic benefits of their monopolistic ownership of frequency bands. It would be no small challenge to insure that possible centralized ownership of cell towers was not used to provide preferential access to one or more wireless cell phone companies.

AND/OR

- Improved roaming between hot spots operated by different operators of licensed spectrum and unlicensed "Wi-Fi" spectrum
Removing any need for centralized hot spot / cell ownership.

Some means to improving unlicensed "Wi-Fi" spectrum sharing

- Geographical sharing
"Advances in geolocation database technology are making it easier to exploit
spectrum sharing opportunities. Here databases hold information on the frequencies
available for sharing in different locations, known as white spaces. White space
devices query the database to determine suitable channel frequencies and powers."
- Increase the available "Wi-Fi" spectrum
- Dynamic Spectrum Access
"A licence exempt approach, such as that used by Wi-Fi, provides lower barriers to
spectrum access than a licensed approach."
"DSA approach could provide a useful complement to the use of Wi-Fi based on
licence exempt spectrum outdoors in helping maintain good outdoor quality of service
in high demand urban areas" and high power required for larger coverage in sparsely populated rural areas.


Benefits:
- Reducing barriers to spectrum access using licence exempt sharing:
Sharing spectrum within a band by different licence exempt (LE) devices can significantly reduce barriers to spectrum access compared to a licensed approach.
- Increasing the supply of spectrum: The sharing of existing frequency bands on a geographical basis to provide greater access to spectrum;

Limitations
- with geographical spectrum sharing additional effort to establish and enforce co-existence rules between existing spectrum users and new services sharing access to their spectrum
- possible tragedy of the commons whereby increasing numbers of users reduce the
overall quality of service provided for everyone.

DSA methods
- use “listen before talk” protocols with licensed spectrum similar to those used by Wi-Fi to avoid interfering with nearby white space devices
- hybrid approaches, combining both geolocation databases and sensing
- Intelligent antennas, that are able to accurately focus their energy between transmitter and receiver, could be used to reduce interference between users
- (most advanced) In the event that the spectrum available at a given location is non-contiguous, aggregation enables a device to combine frequency bands together into a usable carrier of sufficient bandwidth




http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/spectrum-sharing/summary/Spectrum_Sharing.pdf

Elections Laws are about the most important of all laws in a Democracy.

Elections Laws are about the most important of all laws in a Democracy. 

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/02/10/guy_giorno_tapped_as_conservatives_legal_adviser.html

“details the terms of Guy Giorno’s new gig as the Conservatives’ legal advisor. He’s a good choice. He knows the legal thickets surrounding partisan activity well, and understands the difference between what the party might hope and what the rules actually say”

It is very clear the Conservatives plan on using newly created loop holes in the election law.

***** Elections and their Laws determine the Government chosen to manages our public resources and determines our fate. *****

Canada's election flawed laws are the reason we not able to obtain a Good Government. If you are in doubt for a second that about the about this. Look at the FIFA, TPP and CETA investment treaties. These are secret agreement and are particularly harmful because it denies public access to arbitration case decisions miss-leading the public into believing their government is able to exercise sovereign powers.

Also FIPA and similar investment treaties are NOT required for trade "Brazil has not ratified a single investment treaty yet its foreign direct investment in 2011 stood at a record $66.7 billion."

http://tdwebste.blogspot.ca/2012/12/fipa-like-treaties-with-investor-state.html

http://www.troymedia.com/2012/12/17/stephen-harper-left-india-with-no-fipa-heres-why/


***** Democracy requires an informed public voting in fair elections. *****

Election Laws that purposely restricting students and others who are less likely to vote for the Conservatives by not actively providing them information they require to vote is in direct violation of our Constitution.

Canada's Election Laws are required to provide Good Government by our constitution.
http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ca_1867.html

91. It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government of Canada,

http://www.slaw.ca/2014/02/09/why-the-conservatives-fair-elections-act-could-be-unconstitutional/

***** Bill C-23 “Fair Election Act” is designed with loopholes to enable conflicts of interest and financial corruption *****

**** Pre-election spending is unmonitored and unregulated.
PART 16 Communications
319. The definitions in this section apply in
this Part.
“election advertising” means the transmission
to the public by any means during an election
period

The removal of public political financing will only lead to greater
political favouritism and corruption of the public trust.

Corruption and democracy: Political finances - conflicts of interest -
lobbying - justice (2008)

Author(s) :
Alexander Seger, Drago Kos, Alvis Vilks, Ömer Faruk Gençkaya, Manuel
Villoria Mendieta, Alan Doig, Siim Kallas, Rogier Chorus, William
Dinan, David Miller, Pim Albers, Nihal Jayawickrama
ISBN 978-92-871-6355-4

The effects of unregulated political financing are well documented.

- elections represent less a competition of political positions and ideas and more the ability of political parties and candidates to raise funds, leading to an arms or propaganda race disconnected from political debate;

- political money may buy access to office and access to decision makers.

- unregulated political finances are not transparent. It is thus impossible for voters to determine whose interests politicians are representing, and to hold them accountable.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/02/03/parties-open-vaults-in-pre-election-blitz/

http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/03/14/conservative-government-spends-26-million-on-winter-ad-blitz/


http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/03/14/conservative-government-spends-26-million-on-winter-ad-blitz/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/federal-ad-spending-exceeds-projections/article16503725/
“self-promotion at taxpayer expense, spending $2.5-million to advertise a job grant that does not yet exist and recently launching a weekly video of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s activities. “
Economic Action Plan has ended and these are simply Conservative Party ads paid out of tax dollars.
“The Conservative government has spent more than $100-million on Economic Action Plan ads since 2009, in spite of opposition complaints that the ads amount to political propaganda at taxpayers’ expense. “


http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/08/19/ndp_calls_for_tough_preelection_ad_rules.html

During the pre-election off the books unmonitored and unregulated includes 10 of millions on advertising and public propaganda by Special Interest,  Unions and National, International Business to insure a favourable Government is elected.

The financial benefits propaganda and cost of not indoctrinating the public to be favourable are enormous. Consider financial cost to International Oil resource extraction industry of limitations on exploration.  Consider the financial cost to National Internet providers and International content controllers.

http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/The+National/About+the+Show/Wendy+Mesley/ID/1858697835/



**** Listed allowed ID documents selectively discriminate against non-drivers, young, students, aboriginals and seniors.

The Voter Information Card along with other identifying documentation such as student card, passport ... is no longer accepted.

**** Elections Canada is legally prevented from educating voters to increase dis-enfranchised voter turn out. 

http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=rec/part/nysr&document=p3

64% of youth cite access barriers as the reason they did not vote

Student and other organizations representing dis-enfranchised voters state that more information is required with Voter Information Cards. Including voting options, locations, ID instructions and list of the candidates. Delivery must occur early, and additional followup mailings or email if the voter provides this. There are many mobile people who rely on email rather than regular mail.

**** Direct marketing advertisements to known Party supporter encouraging their financial and implied turn out at the elections poles is unrestricted.

The Conservatives “Canada Election Act” prevents Elections Canada from educating voters so that they may vote in a fair election. Further the Conservatives added a loop hole to enable them to selectively encourage their known supporters to participate.

(3) The commercial value of services provided
to a registered party for the purpose of
soliciting — by mail, telephone or other electronic
means — monetary contributions is not
an election expense under subsection (1), as
long as the soliciting is directed only towards
individuals who have made at least one monetary
contribution of $20 or more to the registered
party or to one of its registered associations,
nomination contestants or candidates in
the five years before polling day for the election
period in which the services are provided.

This is in direct violation of the requirements of Good Government Democracy and in violation of constitutional intent of

91. It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government of Canada,

**** Are not sufficient punishment for over spending in Canada's winner take all leadership and fist past the post voting. 

Excessive over spending should result in negatives, fining violators for their vagrant disregard for spending limits.

85. (1) Section 465 of the Act is amended
by adding the following after subsection (2):

(2.1) If a candidate’s election expenses, as
set out in his or her electoral campaign return,
exceed the maximum amount that is allowed
under section 440, the amount that is provided
for in subsection (2) is reduced as follows:
(a) by one dollar for every dollar that exceeds
the maximum amount by less than 5%;
(b) by two dollars for every dollar that exceeds
the maximum amount by 5% or more
but by less than 10%;
(c) by three dollars for every dollar that exceeds
the maximum amount by 10% or more
but by less than 12.5%; and
(d) by four dollars for every dollar that exceeds
the maximum amount by 12.5% or
More.

**** Elections Canada ability to enforce election regulations has been removed
and placed under the control of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions which is appointed by the politically Auditor General appointed by the PM. Further there are infective prosecution publication requirements. This in effect allow the public to be kept in the dark about vagrant violation of the Elections Canada Act spending limits which.

Office of the Chief Electoral Officer:
(a) the portion known as the Investigations
Directorate;
(b) the portion known as the Compliance
and Enforcement Directorate; and
(c) the portion known as Internal Services
– Investigations and Compliance and Enforcement.

Now the responsibility of
Office of the Director of Public
Prosecutions

Appointed by the Auditor General
Which is appointed by the PM