In the days and months ahead, ChristianGovernance will be building the foundations for three issues that we already know we want to highlight in the next Ontario provincial election: education, human rights and the energy oligopoly.
Much of this work will revolve around the intellectual foundations, demonstrating the rationality and necessity of the positions we are advancing. We will also make the case for the strategic sensibility of our positions. We will interact with critics who challenge our positions.
The Ontario election is still probably over a year away, but, since we are taking strong “anti-status quo” positions – positions that may even be unfamiliar to many people – the foundational work needs to be done now to frame the issues that we want to tackle, and to carve out clear positions on these important issues that need to be fought in that election.
If any of our supporters in other provinces have a provincial election coming up and you want to discuss ChristianGovernance’s participation in your provincial election, please by in touch at [email protected] or at 613-496-0091 to discuss the possibility of a campaign in your province.
The positions ChristianGovenance is taking on these three issues we are highlighting in Ontario are as follows:
Education: Separation of school and state.
Human rights: Human rights is a socialist, or humanist, law code. Human rights is an embarrassment to Canada, and needs to be replaced by God’s law. One logical implication of this position is the need to abolish the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
Energy oligopoly: Concerns regarding theft from ratepayers/taxpayers (through corruption, incompetence and/or inefficiency) and accountable governance make this an issue of concern to Christians. The tightly controlled network of organizations responsible for bringing energy to Ontario’s ratepayers raises many questions about inefficiency, incompetence and possible corruption. These suspicions need to be investigated. Furthermore, greater accountability and transparency needs to be imposed on this energy oligopoly; this energy network needs to be deregulated to introduce robust free market competition; and much, if not all, of the Green Energy Act needs to be repealed.
We will be posting articles relevant to our Ontario election campaign in a separate section of our website under “PROJECTS.” There you will see the sub-category “Ontario 2011 election.”
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We need some counter points here!
Education: I just posted in your article regarding this topic. To sum my key point; removing the government (read: tax support) from schooling leaves only home and private schooling. Some people will be unable to pay for private schools and unable to provide home school; you’re condemning their children to no education, which will drive a greater and greater wedge between the rich and poor.
Human Rights: “God’s Law”? I can pretty easily assume you mean “Christian God’s Law”, considering the forum. Do you not foresee some problems from, oh, I don’t know, every other religious group who may want their religious law enshrined? Ignoring that; WHICH Christian law? Just New Testament, or Old Testament too? Maybe some of the spin off stuff like the Book of Mormon or something from the Jehova’s Witnesses?
But let’s talk brass tacks; clearly you mean the Ten Commandments. Do you want to enforce that the population worships the Christian god? Is there an objective definition for what does and does not constitute idolatry? How extensive are blasphemy laws to be enforced? Most Christians observe Sunday as the Sabbath, even though it’s historically been Saturday — do you plan to change that? Let’s skip ahead — for adultery, are we going with Jesus’ definition, that even thinking of it is an offense? How will we prosecute people’s thoughts? Similarly, does coveting need to be demonstrated, or is merely thinking of it warrant punishment?
And actually, while we’re at it, should we be using the Bible in it’s original text for the judgments or will a modern edition do? I know everyone’s very fond of the King James edition, but of all the editions are we sure it’s exactly the right one? Specifics are very important for practical implementation of law. Try as they might, not everyone can be a biblical scholar (especially if they can’t read because we’ve done away with Public Schools).
Energy Oligopoly: I can understand a lot of why the country’s energy policies may concern you. I have concerns myself; however, if we deregulate Energy like you propose, what is to prevent the use of power-distribution as a luxury item? Are you not concerned about private, corporate greed? Do you really want private organizations having control over the livelihood of millions of Canadians? How would this be any different from privatizing our water supplies and selling with artificial demand restraints?
If you’re concerned about underhanded goings ons in our Energy departments, we already have systems in place to investigate them, through our representation in government. How would a private system do this any better?