Collaborative Governance - restoring effective representation

Socialism (collectivism) isn't the ONLY choice for effective program and service delivery. It's just the ONLY choice you've been offered. 


The search for a 'new paradigm' in governance that 'adapts' the concepts of direct democracy and leads us to a point where 'individuals' rather than 'political parties' are expected to 'effectively collaborate' with each other to bring solutions to the governance of society - in an non-partisan requires that we must first learn to Take the 'politics' out of 'government'.   


I can hear the nay-sayers immediately rush to 'pooh-pooh' the very notion that such collaboration is even within the realm of possibility. Certainly when we look at the competing political interests at play in our current system of governance - that would be a fair assumption to make. However I am going to make the case, from my experience and training in the field of creating and implementing 'cultural' change across organisations and within public/private partnerships - and demonstrate that such a level of non-political collaboration is not only possible - it is essential - to effective, progressive, de-centralized governance. 


I am in my element here and trust you too can entertain and embrace the challenges of a 'cultural shift'. 

The back story - one #PPC member

I'm in an odd position.

Politically.

I live in Francophone Beauce.

My husband's hometown.

We've raised our 2 children here

among their very large extended family.

They were educated in French despite having an English option.

This is my 2nd time living here. We're here to integrate.

I'm from London, Ontario

My mother is Qcoise, My Father of Irish descent.

Despite being functionally bilingual, I'm considered 'anglo'

Despite being Canadian, I'm considered by local Statists an 'outsider'.

I've lost employment positions because local politicos consider me 'inappropriate'

to work in  a field in which there remains a shortage of qualified professionals.

I've supported Maxime Bernier's vision & platform since 2006.

But I've done so online, not in the field, not door to door.

My presence would be detrimental if not well received.

I receive no newsletters from my EDA.

I was invited to an event once only to have the invitation revoked.

I registered my husband and I to attend another event

only to find our names were not on the list when we arrived.

You see the same 'Politicos' who consider me an 'outsider',

also support Maxime Bernier, and he ... them.

I understand politics.

So I limit my advocacy to online activity.

It's an odd situation but thankfully a satisfying one

I have a contribution to make. My 'riding' is twitter.

La direction est toute aussi importante que le chemin.

Marcher c'est bien savoir vers où l'on va, c'est mieux.

Can capitalism be justified on religious grounds? - Ayn Rand

There can be no more disastrous error—morally, philosophically and politically—than to assert that the ultimate justification of Capitalism rests on faith. To assert this is to announce that there is no rational justification for Capitalism, no rational arguments to support the principles which created this country—and that reason is on the side of the enemy.
The Communists claim that they are the champions of reason and science. If the Conservatives concede that claim and retreat into the realm of religion, it will be an act of intellectual abdication, the kind of intellectual surrender that the Communists’ irrational ideology could never have won on its own merits.

Separation of Church and State - Ayn Rand

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Political freedom requires a separation of church and state. This principle is often advocated, but seldom fully understood. Properly, this separation is rooted in the principle of intellectual freedom. It means that every individual should be free to think about and accept any idea he chooses.
To say that church is separate from state means that the state makes no evaluation of its citizens’ ideas, religious or otherwise. The state’s concern is only with men’s actions, specifically actions that trespass on individual rights. It neither persecutes nor tolerates nor promotes ideas—because it is unconcerned with ideas per se.

From the other direction, to say that state is separate from church, means that a citizen—including any faction of them, such as a church—is incapable of using the state’s coercive power to penalize or support ideas, religious or otherwise. If a citizen wants to hinder or support an idea, he must argue his case with others, not enact a law.

In a free society, government has no power to persecute or establish religious ideas because it has no power to police ideas as such. No one, including those in government, may force their ideas on anyone.

Principles of a Free Society

Pragmatist - Ayn Rand

The Pragmatists declared that  

philosophy must be practical 

and that practicality consists of 

dispensing with all 
absolute principles and standards

that there is  

no such thing as 

objective reality or permanent truth

that  
truth is 
that which works, 

and its validity can be judged only by its consequences—

that no facts can be known with certainty in advance, 

and anything may be tried by rule-of-thumb

that reality is not firm, but fluid and “indeterminate,” 

that there is no such thing as a distinction between an external world and a consciousness

(between the perceived and the perceiver), 

there is only an undifferentiated package-deal labeled “experience,”

and whatever one wishes to be true, is true, 

whatever one wishes to exist, does exist, 

provided it works or makes one feel better.

A later school of more Kantian Pragmatists amended this philosophy as follows. If there is no such thing as an objective reality, men’s metaphysical choice is whether the selfish, dictatorial whims of an individual or the democratic whims of a collective are to shape that plastic goo which the ignorant call “reality,”  

therefore this school decided that  

objectivity 

consists of  

collective subjectivism—

that  

knowledge 

is to be 
gained by means of  

public polls 

among 

special elites 

of “competent investigators”  

who can “predict and control” reality 

that  

whatever people wish to be true, is true,  

whatever people wish to exist, does exist, 

and  

anyone who holds any firm convictions of his own 

is an arbitrary, mystic dogmatist, 

since 

reality is indeterminate 

and 

people determine its actual nature.

  
From Ayn Rand : For the New Intellectual

You won't find THIS 19 year-olds comment from Saguenay in the mainstream press!

I want you to read this from my friend Yan Brassard :

I'm a young 19 year-old man from Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean. I study in the Cégep de Jonquière. I live in the most unilingual and sovereignist region of the Quebec province. I know how it is to live in a place where bilinguism is devalued. My friends don't speaks English, my parents don't either. I wasn't raised in a bilingual family.

However, I know that English is the international language of business. I know that I'm living in a bilingual country with a majority of native English speakers. I know that Quebec's southern neighboring country is the United States of America, world's third biggest country, the number one economic superpower, but also the richest country in the world.

I don't think that isolationist policies promoting unilinguism and hatred of the English language will encourage Quebec industries to be successful around the world. I'm a huge fan of the French language. This is a truely beautiful language with a old history. I don't think there's any contradiction in appreciating our language and use the English language in a daily basis in our professionnal life. No, I wasn't raised in a bilingual area. That's why I have to put more energy in learning English than people who have the chance to live in a bilingual environment.

Le débat sur la langue au Québec - un faux débat.- par Martin Hamel

Tout le débat émotif entourant le débat sur la langue au Québec et entretenu par notre élite politique et journalistique de gauche n’est à mon avis qu’un prétexte pour camoufler quelque chose de plus grave. Toute cette poudre aux yeux cache une des nombreuses tendances totalitaristes de la société Québécoise et une atteinte flagrante à nos libertés fondamentales au nom de la protection de notre langue. Pour voir cette atteinte, il faut comprendre ce qui semble être le véritable motif derrière les lois astreignantes qui régissent l’univers linguistique de notre province. Certains verront dans ce texte une paranoïa ou une théorie du complot voire même de la fabulation mais avant de rejeter cette théorie du revers de la main, prenez au moins la peine de réfléchir à ce qui suit et qui est tout de même basé sur certains faits troublants.

Les Erreurs de Connaissance contre Les Infractions de Moralité

« Apprenez à faire la différence entre des erreurs de connaissance et de morale. Une erreur dans la connaissance n’est pas une faute morale, pourvu que vous cherchiez à la corriger; seul un mystique pourrait juger les êtres humains sur le critère d’une hypothétique omniscience systématique.  Un acte immoral est le choix conscient d’une action que vous savez être mauvaise, ou un refus de savoir intentionnel, une suspension du discernement et de la pensée. Ce que vous ignorez ne constitue pas une charge morale à votre encontre; mais dès lors que vous refusez de savoir, vous plantez la graine de l’infamie dans votre âme. 

Pardonnez l’erreur de connaissance, mais n’acceptez aucune entorse à la morale.Accordez le bénéfice du doute à ceux qui cherchent à savoir, mais traitez en assassins potentiels ces insolents dépravés qui veulent vous imposer leurs vues, proclamant pour justifier leurs exigences qu’ils n’ont aucune raison à donner, que ce sont les sentiments qui les animent.Traitez de même ceux qui rejettent un argument irréfutable en disant: ‘ce n’est que de la logique’, car ce qu’ils veulent est: ‘ce n’est que la réalité’. Or le seul système que l’on puisse opposer à la réalité est fondé sur un désir de mort.

John Galt's Speech

Bill Gates : 10 realites de la vie que l'école n'apprend pas!

Bill Gates a récemment prononcé un discours dans une école secondaire à propos de 

10 choses que l'école n'apprend pas mais qu'il faut néanmoins apprendre le plus rapidement possible !

Vous pouvez ne pas l'aimer.

Mais sachez que, lui, a certainement appliqué les règles qu'il préconise !

Il parle

de bons sentiments

et

d'enseignements politiquement corrects

qui ont créé des générations de jeunes totalement dépourvus du moindre sens des réalités de la vie. Tout en expliquant comment ce "concept" les prédispose à l'échec dans le monde réel, il donne ici dix règles à suivre. A faire lire à certains ados "révoltés".

Et à d'autres... 

Parasite social institutionnel

Un parasite social institutionnel (PSI) est quiconque vit par la force 

sur le dos des autres 

de façon visible, constante et impunie. 

Les synonymes de '"parasite social institutionnel" sont :  

"rentier de la spoliation légale", "esclavagiste officiel", 

"exploiteur du peuple".

The Evil 1% - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

The "occupy" protest movement is thriving off the claim that the 99% are being exploited by the 1%, and there is truth in what they say. But they have the identities of the groups wrong. They imagine that it is the 1% of highest wealth holders who are the problem. In fact, that 1% includes some of the smartest, most innovative people in the country – the people who invent, market, and distribute material blessings to the whole population. They also own the capital that sustains productivity and growth.

Authoritarian Government - Ayn Rand

It took centuries and a brain-stopping chain of falsehoods to bring a whole people to the state of Hitler-worship. Modern German culture, including its Nazi climax, is the result of a complex development in the history of philosophy, involving dozens of figures stretching back to the beginnings of Western thought. The same figures helped to shape every Western nation; but in other countries, to varying extents, the results were mixed, because there was also an opposite influence or antidote at work. In Germany, by the turn of our century, the cultural atmosphere was unmixed; the traces of the antidote had long since disappeared, and the intellectual establishment was monolithic.
(IS it inaccurate to observe that term 'monolithic'could also be applied to our political options in socialist Quebec ?) 

Collaborative Governing - Individual Committment to Appropriate Consensus

The Governance Dimension

Partners who seek to collaborate must understand how

• to jointly make decisions about the rules that will govern their behavior and relationships;

• to create structures for reaching agreement on collaborative activities and goals through shared power arrangements.

Collaboration: Changer votre façon de penser

Efficace,

durable,

représentant,

axée sur les résultats   

la collaboration démocratique  

nécessite

« entrée individuelle »

plutôt que

de «Positionnement collectif».

(Pas de pensée de groupe, aucun parti-line », sans droit de vote fermés)

Collaboration : Change your thinking

Effective,
sustainable,
representative,
results-oriented'
collaboration
requires
individual input 
rather than
'collective positioning'. 
(no group-think, no party-line', no closed vote) 

La Gouvernance et la collaboration - la restauration de la représentation effective

english

Le socialisme (collectivisme) n'est pas le seul choix pour la livraison des programmes sociaux. C'est juste le seul choix que vous avez été offerts. 

La recherche pour un ‹le nouveau paradigme› dans la gouvernance qui «adapte» les concepts de démocratie directe et nous mène à un point où les «individus» au lieu de ‹les partis politiques› sont prévus de ‹collaborer efficacement› d'amener des solutions à la gouvernance de société - dans un mainiere non-partisan, exige que nous apprenions premièrement à reprendre la «politique» du «gouvernement». 

Je peux entendre les gens imediatement à 'pooh-pooh' la notion que une telle collaboration entre des 'individus' est même dans le royaume de possibilité. Certainement quand nous regardons le concourant des intérêts politiques au jeu dans notre système actuel de gouvernance - ce serait une supposition juste faire. Cependant je ferai le cas, de mon expérience et entraînant dans le domain de créer et exécutant le changement « culturel » à travers les organisations et dans les partenariats public/privés - et démontre qu'un tel niveau de collaboration apolitique est non seulement possible - c'est essentiel pour la gouverance efficace, progressif et décentraliser (autonomous). 

Je suis dans mon élément ici et j'ai la confiance vous pouvez vous aussi divertir et relever les défis d'un «changement culturel» dans notre politique. 

Le contribuable

Le contribuable indépendant

comme moi 

et 

peut-être comme vous 

n'est pas un exécutif puissant, 

mais chacun de nous réalisons 

que nous avons le droit 

à ce que nous gagnons 

et, 

comme les principaux intervenants 

dans notre nation, 

nous nous attendons 

à être consultés et informés, 

à tous égards 

à chaque fois 

que nos bénéfices 

sont tirés de nous 

par chacun et tout gouvernement 

que nous embauchons

45,714,231 Non-Partisan Reasons for a Public Inquiry

Forty-Five Million, Seven-Hundred and Fourteen Thousand, Two Hundred and Thirty-One

NON-PARTISAN Reasons

Why We Don't Have To BEG For A PUBLIC INQUIRY – (give or take)

TIME TO GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR OR RETURN THE PRODUCT AS DEFECTIVE

La moralite inverse ...

J'ai vu

ce qui 

ne marche pas

dans ce

monde,

j'ai vu ...