Democracy! Better Future Forward

We must strive to accept the responsibility to better our social, environmental and our economic issues within our national borders. Saddling future generations with insurmountable debt obligations, is not a sound approach. What we present here is the essence of our commitment to all Canadians. Moving forward, we must continue to be fiscally responsible and be aware of the economic burden we create for our children, grand-children and future Canadians. The path to responsible, realistic fiscal management resides within parameters of efficacy and efficiency.

Fostering immediate economic growth at home
For years, the federal ruling party has been at odds with our provinces. Where solutions are plentiful, the federal ruling party impedes positive economic growth with inter-provincial barriers that deny all levels of government, provinces and businesses from benefiting economically. There are several bills that will be addressed and/or their focus redirected in order to foster positive economic results.

• In 2016, the Canadian Journal of Economics published a study which concluded that inter-provincial trade barriers cost Canadians and the economy, approximately $100 billion in lost economic opportunities. These much needed taxable funds could accelerate the process of a balanced budget sooner. We propose tax credit incentives for initiatives and solutions which create positive sources of economic benefit. Producing additional tax revenues will accelerate a balanced budget sooner.
• The current equalization scheme that applies to the distribution of certain funds from the federal government to provinces, will be revised. We propose drafting better frameworks and incentivised partnerships with the provinces based on respect for their involvement and positive contributions in Canada, as oppose to disrespecting their earned inclusivity with unfair parameters of eligibility. Decades long provincial welfare bailout schemes must no longer be tolerated.
• We propose that provinces adopt more efficient streamlined equalization formulas to encourage sound provincial management decisions and not create decade’s long wasteful budgetary mismanagement practices. We propose incremental eligibility parameters for provinces who cannot demonstrate measurable improvement from past transfers, should they require more than 35% of the total equalization budget, year over year.
• Formulas might also include budgeted yearly allowances based on cumulative past transfers measuring the inability to meet previous expected results based on agreed provincial guidelines and parameters. In short, we propose fostering healthier economic formulas. With dialogue and discussions with our partners, we can bring about sound measurable practices to foster better results with attempts and intentions to reduce the federal government’s overall borrowing obligations.
• Incentives for affirmative economic results might include tiered capped bonus transfers for provinces fostering net positive economic outcomes. While the federal government has no say in how provinces spend this equalization transfer, we can make sure that formulas and eligibility parameters are properly incentivized, fair and respectful for all participants, while producing positive economic benefits overall. While encouraging the process of creating sound economic environments to produce balanced budgets, this will help to reduce our borrowing obligations, thus help to balance federal budgets sooner.
  
  

Immigration
The current immigration policy is not working and in many cases, adding multiple levels of economic discrimination and housing distress in our society. The fact is, our country cannot feed and support everyone on earth. We must be able to draw the line. In order to continue to provide for current Canadians moving forward, we will need to reduce by half, the number of immigrants we currently accept. The process of becoming a Canadian will be revised following the Canadian civics heritage curriculum and its objectives which we propose via our 5 key objectives of our platform.

Health related
Although health care is a provincial issue, provinces must meet conditions set out in the Canadian Health Act in order to receive health care transfer payments. Many of these conditions are set within parameters that prevent better innovations of products, services and economic benefit for Canadians. With soaring provincial transfer payments exceeding 40 billion, we need to explore the possibilities of “enhanced practice” and “performance based” funding parameters as examples, as opposed to some of the current inefficient methods used.

We also propose modern nationwide health and nutrition incentives to encourage better nutritional and health education and develop healthier conscious choices. Although April 7 is recognized as world health day, we propose creating a Canadian health weekend to organize walks, fitness and outdoor events and info sessions that promote good nutrition and good health, overall. At the same time, these events could create local economic opportunities and also serve as food donation drives to help those in need, in our communities.

Foreign investment incentives
The 2022 Liberal government plans to spend 15 billion on foreign, out of country advertising to lure tech companies to invest in Canada. Fact is, we do not need to frivolously spend such amounts to achieve those goals.

Within our borders, using federal legislation, we protect our Canadian resources from illegal harvesting. We would propose and question Canadians on the idea of an internet data harvesting licence to tax international data collecting businesses for harvesting Canadian data originating from within Canadian borders. Incentives to promote those organizations to relocate portions of their operations to Canada could help meet proposed exemption eligibility parameters. Also, we will look at data harvesting fees for such entities as call centres operating outside of Canadian territorial borders. We would encourage proportional relocation incentives to have those companies relocate portions of their operations to Canada, to create Canadian jobs and strengthen the Canadian economy.

We can invest that money in Canada and bring modern democracy to all Canadians. Our 5 key objectives can be achieved within that allocated sum.

Energy research and our natural resources
As technology continues to create better opportunities, we must further our investments in developing a robust energy infrastructure. We are ready to work together to build better partnerships to ensure stable infrastructures of energy to promote and facilitate economic growth and prosperity across Canada.

• We envision a steady transition from fossil fuels to better energy solutions for our society. This transition will not happen overnight. As examples, heavy equipment manufacturers, shipping vessels, large commercial and industrial petrol engines will continue to be produced for many decades to come. Until technologies can surface and address these issues, we should set realistic proposals with measurable expected outcomes that can be achieved. We must consider that some of the largest global populations are having great difficulty meeting global carbon emissions reductions originally set out in the Kyoto Protocol, and then later, the Paris Agreement and in some cases, abandoning support for these agreements in part or in full.
• We must ensure that this transition does not cripple the possibility for a well-rounded sustainable future. We must provide Canadians with affordable resources in order to facilitate the transition. Our priorities are future forward thinking policies and not backwards destructive economic agenda plans. Instead of a destructive carbon tax schemes, we plan on introducing better tax credit incentives for sound environmental decisions. Incentivized household tax rebates for proactive decisions will provide Canadians some relief come tax season.
• As a nation committed to the Paris climate agreement, we must strive to meet expectations without creating catastrophic harm to our economy. We must measure our efforts and expectations against comparative realistic parameters. We should not bear the complete responsibility and negative impacts of unattainable goals, while allowing so called developing countries to pollute their way to prosperity. Those actions negatively impacts our attempts and efforts. Unfortunately, Canada cannot solve the world’s pollution problem. None the less, we can continue our efforts with better management policies for our country, and our only planet

• We must continue to make advancements in providing the world with a better cleaner more reliable source of petroleum. Our ability to pay off our immense debt can be accelerated with a sound approach to harvesting of our natural resources and providing other friendly nations, more respectable products overall.
• We will address the issues of global genocidal virus and bio agent developments. Along with independent organizations, we will propose an international ban on gain of function research. Along with our US state counterparts and other global countries, we will propose UN amendments to make gain of function research illegal, globally. Since WWI, we have recognized how lethal bio and chemical warfare can be, and it was banned internationally. We can do the same with gain of function research and any other research that has objectives of ending humans and humanity.
  
  

National Safeguards
The Canadian United Party will continue to support the efforts of Canadians, past and present. It is not enough to simply protect and defend our democracy, but we need to implement and support national preparedness safeguards for our country.

As a nation, witnessing the changes in our seasonal weather patterns, we need to be better prepared.

It is time to take into account the progression of intensity regarding natural disasters which we currently face. From massive floods in BC, to giant fire storms in the west, giant rain events and floods in the east, we must be concerned about the betterment of our environment and our planet.

We plan to create additional resources for emergency access to funds, to help Canadians quick access to financial assistance during difficult natural disasters. These funds will provide much needed assistance to affected Canadians and to those communities, who might not be able to return to reshaped altered landscapes.

Investments in disaster emergency preparedness and various protective equipment for Canadians, such as PPE, medical equipment, water purification systems (National DARTS), more emergency vehicles and equipment ready for quick deployment during natural disasters.

Investments in Canadian production manufacturing along with investments in better local sustainable agriculture, woodlands and fisheries are examples of the types of investments we need to do more efficiently to produce better results and better improve our self-sustainability, as communities and as a country overall.

As stated in Canada’s current list of Citizenship Responsibilities:

• Taking responsibility for oneself and one’s family.
• Helping others in the community
• Protecting and enjoying our heritage and environment.

We must remain United, Strong & Free. Join the Canadian United Party.