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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

How to fix Cdn Judges, Ministers, Gov't - out of control?

I'm ever so glad to have "missed" the years 1944 through 2005 - some say I was dead, some regretted my passing, others never missed me.

The unique perspective that comes from being 'away' from a topic or place, allows you the opportunity to see with your own "fresh eyes" what you, yourself already knew/know/ think you know.

Since my revival late last year, I've studied the comings, goings, sayings and commentary of Canadian politics and found myself so devastatingly out-of-touch with current 'public' behaviour and 'public' procedure that I had to go right back to my old textbooks and encyclopedia to establish whether I was crazy or if 'everybody else' was.

I'm prompted to try to outline the symptoms plaguing the Canadian politico-socio-economic psyche, summarize them as a 'root problem' and then make a recommendation or two to address the root problem.

Instead, I'll say but this:
Canada has lost its Crown.

Every single Judge, Minister, Prime Minister, Senator, Privy Counsellor, Deputy-Minister, Asst-Deputy Minister, Parliamentary Assistant, Premier, MP, MPP, MLA, MNA (every public official) is accountable to ONLY one entity - The Crown ( and of course, their own conscience).

Read the Oaths of Office.

If the Government and all it's officials are accountable ONLY to the Crown, the question then is, Who/What is the Crown?

1) A solitary person headquartered in London England?

2) The Office that individual holds?

3) The Office of the individual who holds the title of Governor General in Ottawa/ Lt Governor in each province?

4) The individual who holds the title Prime Minister?

5) The tripartite 'One Parliament' outlined in s.17 of the BNA Act 1867 ?

6) The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

7) The people of Canada, collectively?

8) No one and no thing?


It must be one of these.

But which one.

And the most fascinating part of this exercise is that, Canada, Canadians, all the experts, all the pundits KNOW the answer.

But no one seems to be 'connecting-the-dots' to see the implications on Canada and Canadians.

IF our Stewards of the Crown's assets, liabilities and treasury are ONLY accountable (constitutionally) to the Crown, then why isn't 'the Crown' supervising and managing their activities and behaviour with a stronger hand?

IF these same Stewards are NOT accountable to the people (except to influence their vote at election time), WHY does everyone seem to think we have a 'democratic' system?

Or does democratic now mean "the right of each and every individual to be personally beguiled/bribed with their own share of the public purse"?

So if you can see this as 'a problem' (i.e. no one caring who/what is the source of all Canadian Sovereignty), can you see that some of the Stewards might be taking advantage of the situation?

If this "cats away... mice will play" scenario seems likely to you .... what might be the solution?


My friend Ed(ward) E. Trober tried to address this from the Monarch's perspective when he wrote a re-vision of the Quebec Act of 1774, as a modern-day Royal Proclamation.

Perhaps his idea of a 'deemed disposition' of Crown sovereignty might resonate with you.