“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein
In the world of Internet Communication and Media blitz the foundational theories of Newtonian Physics are obsolete. Newton’s Laws cannot explain nor make sense of the technologies that we currently employ for common daily tasks.
Something so essential and commonplace as sending an email - which is one of our most frequent personal and collective activities in 2011 - simply cannot be explained nor justified with the Physics taught in our schools in Ontario [and Canada]. They are STILL teaching obsolete Newtonian physics while physicists call for modernization.
Only Quantum Theory [math, physics, et cetera] can enable and give the User a theoretical base that allows for the effective use of neutrons and electrons in communication and in social, cultural, physical, industrial, scientific and political change.
This is a sub-atomic particle era [The Atomic Age] and we know how to use our ‘subs’ with greater and greater facility. This cannot be accommodated by Isaac Newton’s universe and requires a conception of The Quantum. [This reminds me of the idea of The Tao in Chinese Taoism.]
How could I have known and who would have guessed that neutrons are existent phenomena that can and must co-exist in more than one place at the same time and that we can align, arrange and manipulate these electrons in meaningful ways that change all aspects of life, Human or otherwise?
Who would have suspected, given what was previously believed and taught? In fact I can send copies of arranged electrons to countless people all at the same time [cc & bcc]. Newton will not allow this kind of action and reaction, cause and effect.
We must teach our children Quantum Theory and we must do it quickly. In order for this to be possible, teachers and others must become acquainted with the Science of their Age. Presently they seem to know nothing and still struggle in a ‘mechanical universe’ instead of in a Quantum Universe.
Quantum allows and permits and enables miracles by the standards of Newtonian Physics. These Quantum Phenomena make the real condition and Being of the essential material of the universe the subject of a Science rather than a mystery, a technology rather than a miracle.
This is an impediment to our National stability, progress and growth. And this ‘problem’ is rooted in our public schools and the curricula we employ in them. These are outdated, obsolete and a waste of money, time, lives and other resources. Theory is everything!
In Newton’s Universe matter can only exist in one place at a time. Yet we prove on a daily and ongoing basis that this is not true; that matter can be duplicated, multiplied and applied to real situations with real results. Every time we write and send an email we are aligning electrons into meaningful series and then we use these arranged electrons to DO things.
These technologies are tools that enable us to make tools to do other things. This usually involves their duplication and multiplication. Newton was a genius of historic proportions but in light of quantum theory he wrong - or inadequate for our present and future scientific needs and applications. It's quite simple really - Newton can’t do it!
Einstein could and did and he has enabled all of us to do it in keeping with his peculiar and effective view of reality; of the nature of the physical world and the potential that is embodied in the smallest particles of matter and their subcomponents, which are ‘non-matter’.
These tools have no physical being and cannot be located in a place. Still they are a ‘quantum leap’ ahead of their physical predecessors. LOL. The energy contained in these small particles is really difficult, if not impossible to predict and calculate at this point in our exploration and development of this new Science…this new set of sciences.
Teachers require immediate and appropriate training in this Science and other necessary Educational adjustments. This should have been done fifty years ago. Our survival and success depend upon this.
We need good teachers trained in good science and with good technologies available to assist them in sharing these important components of The Universal Culture with all students in all schools. The rules have changed completely in the physical world and everyone must know…quickly. The rules of education must change in order to accommodate the ‘changed’ reality.
One way to begin to address this set of problems is to engage the resources of The Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in a public education “upgrade”. We need new Software…quickly.
“Newton is dead. Long live Einstein.”
RJW Copyright
June 19, 2006. 2139 h [15 minutes]
Guelph, Ontario, CANADA
Monday, September 5, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Wealth without Money
I am one of the wealthiest people who has ever lived on planet Earth. By virtue of my citizenship in the Wealthy Society I have benefits, advantages, opportunities, resources, and riches beyond anything any king, queen, emperor or dictator ever had in any previous age.
To elevate and accentuate my wealthy status I have those notable marks of the wealthy – a higher education, influence, protection under the Law, a network of influential contacts and friends, mobility and opportunity. I have greater degrees of literacy as well as access to publicly funded health care which those folks in previous ages did not have.
They could not fly or drive or make a phone call or have an MRI, let alone blog about their political views in a Free and Open Society. I have all of this and so much more. So do many others. We live in a wealthy society and we are wealthy by virtue of this shared set of resources we call Canada.
Wealth without money is part of our daily culture in Canada. Even our poorest citizens have more than the famous rulers and despots and sages of all the ages past – cars, electricity, big wheel trucks and trailer parks, clean fresh water – indoors , plumbing and heating and air conditioning, light, credit, Internet, cell phones, mass communication, Rights and Freedoms, science and medicine and so on. These all make this society and our people wealthy beyond the dreams of those people of ages past.
Even people at the beginning of the 20th Century could not have conceived of anything so remarkable as what we have become and the world we have built. We are amazing and this gives us advantages as well as responsibilities for our more vulnerable friends, neighbours, families – for the whole world.
Together we can build this remarkable dream. Unified we can change the world into the Canadian Dream of peaceful stability with tolerance and shared wealth - Commonwealth. Divided we will fall for anything because “Nature hates a vacuum!” We can do this - just as Jack Layton urged us to do in his last letter to Canadians.
Why not reach for Excellence and Truth in all things? These two things were the core ideas in the emergence of the Golden Age of Ancient Greece in the age of Pericles.
These two simple and powerful ideas have driven Western Civilization for more than two thousand years. Let them drive us forward into and through the 21st Century.
This is the Golden Age of Canadian Culture.
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To elevate and accentuate my wealthy status I have those notable marks of the wealthy – a higher education, influence, protection under the Law, a network of influential contacts and friends, mobility and opportunity. I have greater degrees of literacy as well as access to publicly funded health care which those folks in previous ages did not have.
They could not fly or drive or make a phone call or have an MRI, let alone blog about their political views in a Free and Open Society. I have all of this and so much more. So do many others. We live in a wealthy society and we are wealthy by virtue of this shared set of resources we call Canada.
Wealth without money is part of our daily culture in Canada. Even our poorest citizens have more than the famous rulers and despots and sages of all the ages past – cars, electricity, big wheel trucks and trailer parks, clean fresh water – indoors , plumbing and heating and air conditioning, light, credit, Internet, cell phones, mass communication, Rights and Freedoms, science and medicine and so on. These all make this society and our people wealthy beyond the dreams of those people of ages past.
Even people at the beginning of the 20th Century could not have conceived of anything so remarkable as what we have become and the world we have built. We are amazing and this gives us advantages as well as responsibilities for our more vulnerable friends, neighbours, families – for the whole world.
Together we can build this remarkable dream. Unified we can change the world into the Canadian Dream of peaceful stability with tolerance and shared wealth - Commonwealth. Divided we will fall for anything because “Nature hates a vacuum!” We can do this - just as Jack Layton urged us to do in his last letter to Canadians.
Why not reach for Excellence and Truth in all things? These two things were the core ideas in the emergence of the Golden Age of Ancient Greece in the age of Pericles.
These two simple and powerful ideas have driven Western Civilization for more than two thousand years. Let them drive us forward into and through the 21st Century.
This is the Golden Age of Canadian Culture.
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
The Wealthy Society – Tools for Responsible Citizenship
In Canada we have achieved some remarkable democratic benchmarks. As a result of what I call The Wealthy Society Canadians are [or can be] empowered to impact their own world and The Whole World in ways that are not within reach of most citizens of Planet Earth.
One Canadian can have more personal power than 1000 or 10,000 in the streets of Darfur or many communities in crisis around the world. This truth points to and describes our duty and responsibility to humanity and to the ecosystem.
Our peace and civility and stability and our policy of affordable health care have made so much possible. To throw it away or let it be torn from our grasp would be sad after the struggle to achieve it and the equally stiff one to retain those gains.
I think that when we act we should be clear about why we make choices. We represent those other ten thousand who cannot act for themselves and their families. They need us to act in their behalf and in their best interests.
We can easily help guide the world into a renewed and more hopeful world community. Hope still lives in Canada and we can export it. We have the resources. These are the same resources that have lifted so many Canadians out of poverty and helplessness and ill health.
This help has benefited everyone from Mr. Harper and his political team to the officers of our courts and ALL Canadians rich and poor. We all derive benefit from the common wealth.
Our people are our most precious democratic resource. It is with and through and for The People that I want to see Canada governed. I want to see us ruled only by our own unique democratic devices – Constitution, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Law and Order, Parliamentary democracy and traditions of Freedom.
These collective virtues empower all individuals, all groups, all communities, all that we are in sum total as a nation and as The People. We are Canada!
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One Canadian can have more personal power than 1000 or 10,000 in the streets of Darfur or many communities in crisis around the world. This truth points to and describes our duty and responsibility to humanity and to the ecosystem.
Our peace and civility and stability and our policy of affordable health care have made so much possible. To throw it away or let it be torn from our grasp would be sad after the struggle to achieve it and the equally stiff one to retain those gains.
I think that when we act we should be clear about why we make choices. We represent those other ten thousand who cannot act for themselves and their families. They need us to act in their behalf and in their best interests.
We can easily help guide the world into a renewed and more hopeful world community. Hope still lives in Canada and we can export it. We have the resources. These are the same resources that have lifted so many Canadians out of poverty and helplessness and ill health.
This help has benefited everyone from Mr. Harper and his political team to the officers of our courts and ALL Canadians rich and poor. We all derive benefit from the common wealth.
Our people are our most precious democratic resource. It is with and through and for The People that I want to see Canada governed. I want to see us ruled only by our own unique democratic devices – Constitution, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Law and Order, Parliamentary democracy and traditions of Freedom.
These collective virtues empower all individuals, all groups, all communities, all that we are in sum total as a nation and as The People. We are Canada!
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Ambassadors For Peace
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. - Noam Chomsky
The woman [sic] who really loves her [sic] own children...is the woman [sic] that wants to see other peoples' children get their chance too. Nellie McClung
There exists another compelling reality that possesses power to convince us of the need for fair and equal treatment of children in our publicly-funded and
sanctioned school systems. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, Canada is a nation that is coming of age in an historic Moment in which we are badly needed in the Global Community.
There is an emerging sense amongst citizens of The Earth that Canada is doing many things right. We do not seek to harm our neighbours, but rather offer all people kindness and support, especially in times of crisis.
As the world descends into what seems a deeper and steeper spiral of crisis upon deeper and more complex crisis, The Canadian Way is emerging as a beacon of Hope for the community of nations and for the citizens of every part of the Globe.
We have a reputation for making and keeping peace politically and militarily. A frightened and hurting world in conflict is looking to us to discover how people of all types and backgrounds and from every religion and nationality and language group can live together in relative peace and harmony.
We are a microcosm of and the model for a future world that can be responsible and co-operative and just and compassionate, and peaceful.
In order to export this, perhaps our most valuable cultural feature, we will need citizens who know the feel and the zeal of Liberty and are able to co-exist with and value their neighbours as equals, no matter what their condition or age or economic, social or educational status.
There will be no army of Ambassadors for our way of life if we do not provide clear and concrete opportunities for our young people to enjoy the richness that exists in being equal before a Just Law within a functional and purposeful set of Values and guided by a Vision of hope.
If we treat children with kindness and respect they will be much more inclined to remain in school, to get an education and training, and to support the system that supports them in and with appropriate manners.
Children are and can be such able, gentle, kind, co-operative, respectful, interesting, fun, helpful and educational people. Our teachers can learn much from them as students, as do the best of our post-secondary teachers learn from their students.
If we do not actively and energetically, efficiently and intelligently export Peace and our methods of achieving it, then it is highly likely that War will come to visit us in Canada. At that point most concerns around education, teacher employment contracts, availability of resources and so forth will be moot [irrelevant].
Perhaps we can preempt this possibility by acting in accordance with the real urgency of our circumstances and situation. To act now can prevent much
suffering later for Canadians and people of all nations.
Our situation could change suddenly and dramatically for the worse. But we [Canada] can make a significant positive difference. One way is through appropriate and effective education.
Children need Equal Rights in Canada, in our public schools and everywhere.
Peace Pays!
[excerpt from Our Most Precious Treasures: The Rights Of Children - chapter 8]
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The woman [sic] who really loves her [sic] own children...is the woman [sic] that wants to see other peoples' children get their chance too. Nellie McClung
There exists another compelling reality that possesses power to convince us of the need for fair and equal treatment of children in our publicly-funded and
sanctioned school systems. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, Canada is a nation that is coming of age in an historic Moment in which we are badly needed in the Global Community.
There is an emerging sense amongst citizens of The Earth that Canada is doing many things right. We do not seek to harm our neighbours, but rather offer all people kindness and support, especially in times of crisis.
As the world descends into what seems a deeper and steeper spiral of crisis upon deeper and more complex crisis, The Canadian Way is emerging as a beacon of Hope for the community of nations and for the citizens of every part of the Globe.
We have a reputation for making and keeping peace politically and militarily. A frightened and hurting world in conflict is looking to us to discover how people of all types and backgrounds and from every religion and nationality and language group can live together in relative peace and harmony.
We are a microcosm of and the model for a future world that can be responsible and co-operative and just and compassionate, and peaceful.
In order to export this, perhaps our most valuable cultural feature, we will need citizens who know the feel and the zeal of Liberty and are able to co-exist with and value their neighbours as equals, no matter what their condition or age or economic, social or educational status.
There will be no army of Ambassadors for our way of life if we do not provide clear and concrete opportunities for our young people to enjoy the richness that exists in being equal before a Just Law within a functional and purposeful set of Values and guided by a Vision of hope.
If we treat children with kindness and respect they will be much more inclined to remain in school, to get an education and training, and to support the system that supports them in and with appropriate manners.
Children are and can be such able, gentle, kind, co-operative, respectful, interesting, fun, helpful and educational people. Our teachers can learn much from them as students, as do the best of our post-secondary teachers learn from their students.
If we do not actively and energetically, efficiently and intelligently export Peace and our methods of achieving it, then it is highly likely that War will come to visit us in Canada. At that point most concerns around education, teacher employment contracts, availability of resources and so forth will be moot [irrelevant].
Perhaps we can preempt this possibility by acting in accordance with the real urgency of our circumstances and situation. To act now can prevent much
suffering later for Canadians and people of all nations.
Our situation could change suddenly and dramatically for the worse. But we [Canada] can make a significant positive difference. One way is through appropriate and effective education.
Children need Equal Rights in Canada, in our public schools and everywhere.
Peace Pays!
[excerpt from Our Most Precious Treasures: The Rights Of Children - chapter 8]
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Restoring the Earth for Healthy Living - How to Clean the Oceans
The Earth – our home – has become a toxic waste pile and we need to clean it up...soon and quickly. The oceans are floating current-driven landfills. The air is damaged. The Earth and Water cry out! Toxic and nuclear disasters proliferate.
I have already begun this process of cleaning up the Mess in my own backyard...literally. I turned a rotting and neglected wasteland into a cool and refreshing paradise at zero cost and with a little capitalistic profit.
Now I'm branching out. Lol I want to clean up the whole Earth and see people profit from that set of actions. Billions and trillions of dollars at just waiting to be harvested. In the process of profiting we shall help the Earth.
If we are busy fighting we cannot be cleaning. I say clean! Make life on earth Sustainable and Clean. Together we can do this...Canadians can help.
I have an idea to help clean the oceans. I understand that in the center of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in the massive circling currents that are constant there are great seas of floating plastic...mostly shopping bags and bottles and sludge and so forth.
They drift and waft in endless circles creating a blight upon this life giving resource – the ocean. These circles of current are called 'gyres” - as in gyroscope.
I have an idea of how to remove that floating waste and derive great profit for many – build an entire new fisheries industry to harvest that plastic. We can refit our idle fishing fleets and build new ones to harvest this floating industrial treasure.
Recently I have seen a new piece of equipment on Facebook that can turn plastic back into oil in a very few minutes and at low cost - see links below. If we equipped fishing boats with the proper gear and sent them out to harvest this new ocean resource, many could be restored to productive dignity and even more to earning and wealth. This would also provide a new reliable source of oil at low cost of extraction.
This is not the whole answer but could easily be part of it. Once we make a start then we can think about finishing the job. It begins with you where you are and in this Moment. Let's clean up the Earth and the ecosphere.
Start now in your own way and in your own part of the world. Don't wait for anyone or anything. Just do your part of any magnitude possible to you...the larger the better.
Canadians can affect large groups and influence outcomes on a grand scale in a peaceful way. We can Dream and build the future we want for our children. Clean oceans are part of my Canadian Dream for our children and many generations to come.
This also appears to be a unique and profitable financial opportunity of a lifetime. Several versions of this technology are already available. All we need is investors to see the potential earnings and environmental savings that exist together in this floating plastic waste.
Japanese version of the machine for small operations anywhere in the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGabrorRS8
American version which is on a more industrial scale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWf9nYbm3ac&feature=related
Let's go fishing!
Peace Pays!
“Don't keep the peace...pass it on.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Garbage_Patch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_Garbage_Patch
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I have already begun this process of cleaning up the Mess in my own backyard...literally. I turned a rotting and neglected wasteland into a cool and refreshing paradise at zero cost and with a little capitalistic profit.
Now I'm branching out. Lol I want to clean up the whole Earth and see people profit from that set of actions. Billions and trillions of dollars at just waiting to be harvested. In the process of profiting we shall help the Earth.
If we are busy fighting we cannot be cleaning. I say clean! Make life on earth Sustainable and Clean. Together we can do this...Canadians can help.
I have an idea to help clean the oceans. I understand that in the center of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in the massive circling currents that are constant there are great seas of floating plastic...mostly shopping bags and bottles and sludge and so forth.
They drift and waft in endless circles creating a blight upon this life giving resource – the ocean. These circles of current are called 'gyres” - as in gyroscope.
I have an idea of how to remove that floating waste and derive great profit for many – build an entire new fisheries industry to harvest that plastic. We can refit our idle fishing fleets and build new ones to harvest this floating industrial treasure.
Recently I have seen a new piece of equipment on Facebook that can turn plastic back into oil in a very few minutes and at low cost - see links below. If we equipped fishing boats with the proper gear and sent them out to harvest this new ocean resource, many could be restored to productive dignity and even more to earning and wealth. This would also provide a new reliable source of oil at low cost of extraction.
This is not the whole answer but could easily be part of it. Once we make a start then we can think about finishing the job. It begins with you where you are and in this Moment. Let's clean up the Earth and the ecosphere.
Start now in your own way and in your own part of the world. Don't wait for anyone or anything. Just do your part of any magnitude possible to you...the larger the better.
Canadians can affect large groups and influence outcomes on a grand scale in a peaceful way. We can Dream and build the future we want for our children. Clean oceans are part of my Canadian Dream for our children and many generations to come.
This also appears to be a unique and profitable financial opportunity of a lifetime. Several versions of this technology are already available. All we need is investors to see the potential earnings and environmental savings that exist together in this floating plastic waste.
Japanese version of the machine for small operations anywhere in the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGabrorRS8
American version which is on a more industrial scale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWf9nYbm3ac&feature=related
Let's go fishing!
Peace Pays!
“Don't keep the peace...pass it on.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Garbage_Patch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_Garbage_Patch
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Friday, August 12, 2011
The Global Crisis - What's Wrong with the Economy?
SUMMARY - The Global Economic Crisis consists of a global children's slave trade PLUS an adult slave trade in the tens of millions, added to a widespread and growing militarism which under-girds and drives the world economic production. Many assume we must kill to prosper and use slaves to build wealth. I disagree. The rest is excuse making. Read on and consider this...
1 - The Ailment
There is much speculation about what ails the global economy and those local ones like Greece, Italy, America, and others which are trembling as though under some great invisible weight.
All of the experts [pundits and analysts on CNN, BNN, CTV, CBC, BBC, governments, and so on] agree that there are certain symptoms which they can read and use to help investors be wise in their decisions. The markets seem to be ignoring their opinions. Of course the Market IS imaginary. lol
I see the whole thing differently. I see a looming and simmering Crisis of global magnitude and historic proportions hovering in the shadows ready to break into the daylight and surprise the experts and the innocent alike. It is my opinion that if we do not solve the two central problems with the global economy then it will fail – irreversibly and critically.
Rapidly escalating war and militarism globally added to a dependency upon slavery to acquire wealth are the core of the real problem. This is not Sustainable and neither is the rapid destruction of the Earth for industrial extraction purposes.
I prefer to live a life that is clean, respectable and ethically responsible and urge all others to do the same – “no murder and no 'footprint'.” Perhaps this is partly the Oriental influence in my life, which teaches Simplicity in living. I call this “Success with Less.”
The causes of instability and of this economic Problem are really no secret. All media sources bombard our children with the details of this complex crisis all day long every single day. Many grown-ups seem able to filter out this Truth. It is the main message of the Data Flow.
Kids HEAR it...loud and clear. They do the Math and want to be part of the Solution and no longer excluded and lied to. This Crisis I describe is the scary Elephant in the dark room of every child's heart.
Yet governments and leaders [and experts of all kinds] pretend it's not happening...and say it must be about houses or oil or gold. Young people see this pretense as a betrayal. This is not economics. It's self-deception on a grand scale - which is a bad thing when managing international economies. It's about greed and bad [self-] government.
The problem is simple in my eyes. The main industry that drives the global economy is militarism – manufacturing of bullets of all sizes, bombs, missiles, drones, radar systems, transportation, satellite, intelligence, and naval systems and all kinds of aircraft - equipping, arming, warring, and all that goes with it – what President Eisenhower called “the military industrial complex”. We need to stop killing and making war for profit.
2 – The Diagnosis
People seem to accept it as – well 'acceptable' to generate wealth by violence. I do not. I refuse to earn a living by killing anyone let alone innocent children on the other side of the world whom I should be helping. And I don't want anybody killing anybody for me even if it does generate great wealth for some rich folks I don't know.
The other engine of the global economy is slavery. This secret underside of the global economy includes tens of millions of child slaves of many kinds - industrial, commercial, household, agricultural [like chocolate], mining & extraction, recycling, manufacturing, child soldiers, child prostitutes and sex slaves of both genders and all ages in many places, and others who make invisible contributions to the Wealth of Nations.
Their child labouring is increased and magnified by the much larger human slavery problem. Slavery requires tyranny and that's a steep and slippery slope away from democracy and free and fair market capitalism, thereby destroying democracy.
The exclusion of some from Equality excludes us all mathematically. It's the turning of the back on decency and humanity. It's the end of all that makes life meaningful and tolerable and wonderful.
I estimate that the profits from slavery constitute some ten to fifteen percent [10-15%] of the GGP [ Gross Global Product]. This is the buffer that western cultures of entitlement believe that they are entitled to. It appears that it actually belongs to others who are presently in chains and despair and in the grip of seemingly inescapable injustice that is driven by our prosperity and justified by our religions.
We can do better than this. We should do better than this. We MUST do better than this or the human and natural worlds will come to collect what we owe them. They will be angry. They will be armed, for we will have sold them the means to destroy us and all whom we love. That's business!
3 - The Prescription
What is my Prescription to end this injustice and self-destructive behaviour that is terrorizing our youth? A peace-based economy and an end to slavery. We can do this.
Democratically minded people in the past have done it and we must do as they did, which requires strength and courage. We must do it to survive and solve the Crisis – which is a combination of military, environmental, ethical and other crises all combined into a destructive complex Menace.
I have not heard any of this analysis or solutions to it from Mr. Flaherty the Minister of Finance or the Prime Minister Mr. Harper. They're putting their money on the banks. This problem I describe here is just not part of their analysis while it is the larger part of the danger that confronts us.
We need a new national consciousness that includes these dirty details about our wealth and how we get – through violence and exploitation and injustice.
4 – Who We Are
All the while we say Canada and Canadians love justice and peace. Nonsense...but we should. If we do not alter these truths instead of ignoring them, they will find us and make us pay.
We are like those sometimes cruel and exaggerated characterizations of the citizens of the Confederate States in the American Civil War – “content in our arrogant cruelty.”
I say pay now out of goodwill and good economics practice. My calculations tell me that the taxes and penalties on that historic debt will be too much for humanity to bear individually or altogether if it continues to accrue interest much longer.
Widespread terrorism is at least partly due to the consequences of this arrogance. We must find common ground that is decorated with Justice and Peace.
Peace Pays!
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
How to Effectively Combat the Environmental Crisis and Global Warming - Step up! Speak up! Stand up! Be counted!
In order to effectively address the linked problems of the Environmental Crisis and Global Warming we do not really need complex and lucrative carbon trading markets, though they can help. We do not need burdensome regulations placed on people and organizations, whether private or public, although some regulation is required.
We need to reforest the Earth. We need to plant and nurture vast and enduring forests to sequester carbon dioxide and cool the planet. What could be cooler on a hot day than a walk in a mature forest? Forests cool the planet.
We need to produce our food close to where we live. We need to implement some alternative energy technologies and cut back on overall energy consumption. We need to learn to want and use less.
We need to stop destroying and compromising the eco-system with the weapons of war, the carelessness of manufacturing production and distribution, and the reckless infusion of pollutants into the atmosphere. Whether in war or movie making dark carbon based pollution is a threat to all life.
We need to stop poisoning our water, our soil, our air, our selves and all life on Planet Earth. We can all make a difference together.
This is NOT complicated. It requires informed and disciplined citizenship. This is what I am calling Canadians to embrace in order to secure our future health, our sovereignty and our economy - in order to deliver real Hope to our children and all people.
Step up! Speak up! Stand up! Be counted! Grasp the Vision and act! We can set an example and lead the world towards enduring hope.
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We need to reforest the Earth. We need to plant and nurture vast and enduring forests to sequester carbon dioxide and cool the planet. What could be cooler on a hot day than a walk in a mature forest? Forests cool the planet.
We need to produce our food close to where we live. We need to implement some alternative energy technologies and cut back on overall energy consumption. We need to learn to want and use less.
We need to stop destroying and compromising the eco-system with the weapons of war, the carelessness of manufacturing production and distribution, and the reckless infusion of pollutants into the atmosphere. Whether in war or movie making dark carbon based pollution is a threat to all life.
We need to stop poisoning our water, our soil, our air, our selves and all life on Planet Earth. We can all make a difference together.
This is NOT complicated. It requires informed and disciplined citizenship. This is what I am calling Canadians to embrace in order to secure our future health, our sovereignty and our economy - in order to deliver real Hope to our children and all people.
Step up! Speak up! Stand up! Be counted! Grasp the Vision and act! We can set an example and lead the world towards enduring hope.
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
National Security
Stephen Harper's idea of secure borders and national security measures is to relinquish responsibility. He proposes that we “sacrifice a certain amount of sovereignty for the sake of trade and security and open borders” - NAFTA.
His plan of betrayal is called Fortress North America and will mean American military and security personnel will be deployed on our soil, on and under our waters and in our air space to 'protect' us and to protect American “national security interests.” What a comedy of errors from the First Clown of Canadian governance – Stephen “Harpo the Clown” Harper.
This is further evidence that Mr. Harper has no idea whatsoever about how to implement National Security measures that are Canadian and effective. We need to raise up and pay our own security forces by enlarging the size of our Armed Forces, our Border Security Forces, our Internal Security Forces and our Intelligence Forces.
Once trained and hired we can deploy them and other security forces to guard our borders, protect our people and resources and interests; and secure our democratic values, institutions and processes which guarantee our Liberties. We have the best Armed Forces personnel in the world. Why should we seek help from lesser soldiers with more violent values?
If once we invite American security forces to do our internal security jobs we will soon be wishing we still had authority to make independent decisions about our resources, our politics, our culture, our business ethos, and our society with its peaceful emphasis.
Look at Lebanon and Iraq and many other countries where Americans have come to help. They have been reduced to ruin and chaos by the best intentions in the world. Canada is too important a resource to put it at risk of careless destruction.
Because Stephen Harper does not know what to do he is convinced that no one else could possibly know how to do it: to do the Prime Minister's job right in accordance with current Administrative methods as taught in all great universities and in keeping with our Canadian Parliamentary traditions. He prefers shallow ideology to science and trustworthy and proven methodology and he has attacked our Liberties and Parliamentary system with great zeal.
Doing this Administration work and National Security planning requires a lifetime of diligent preparation and study of Administration and Governance, history and ideas and humanity and legislative methodology. Stephen Harper has not done that work!
Why doesn't the Prime Minister know? Lack of diligence and skills sets! He also has no Canadian military intelligence and it shows in his thuggish, undisciplined and disrespectful behaviour. So he passes responsibility to foreign powers instead of seeking Canadian solutions.
Mr. Harper seeks the easy way through this security blip on our large Canadian radar screen. He seeks a plan that agrees with and furthers his agenda to sell Canada to the lowest corporate bidder or give it away to his American backers. He has no plan whatsoever for the threats to Canada that are developing in the current Crisis.
Canada is MORE than GNP. We are a remarkable and valuable asset in a world of chaos and violence. I will stand up for and fight for our Canada and not his pale imitation.
Our people are exceptional in every way and this includes our Security Forces of all kinds and levels. We simply need leadership that knows how to implement and deploy them for our own national interests.
Mr. Harper wants to sell Canada for a bowl of stew - “ a bowl of pottage”. He seeks to steal and sell our collective heritage and I mean to stop him and deliver real Hope, first to Canadians, and then to all nations and people in the global community. I will need your help to do it.
Read the brief essay set Building The Canadian Dream and then help us to make that Dream real for all Canadians and for our families around the world. This is an easy and inexpensive plan. It is a dignified and independent action that will help to make the Canadian Dream real for generations to come.
This Plan utilizes that important core Principle of political leadership and economic philosophy of the 21st Century - Success with Less - more success with less investment. Am I the only one who sees how to do this? No more fake lakes! I want to see real lakes cleaned up instead.
We need a real home grown Canadian National Security Strategy that involves investing in Canadians to train them and give them real meaningful employment in our security net. We need to train and hire sufficient security and intelligence forces within our borders to protect ourselves and our neighbours who are stressed and stretched to the breaking point already. This will help to build and drive the new economic model of “Sustainability in all things.”
Presently we are in jeopardy from enemies and friends alike - and even from our Prime Minister and his government. This can be quickly and easily changed. The Plan I have in mind will result in strengthening our independent sovereignty and that of our neighbours, friends and allies. Any National Security Plan must include an Environmental Protection and Recovery component and our Plan covers that too.
Canada must provide an example and leadership and not simply bow and capitulate to other external forces, American or otherwise.
Canada First!
Peace Pays!
“Don't keep the peace...pass it on.”
...
..
.
His plan of betrayal is called Fortress North America and will mean American military and security personnel will be deployed on our soil, on and under our waters and in our air space to 'protect' us and to protect American “national security interests.” What a comedy of errors from the First Clown of Canadian governance – Stephen “Harpo the Clown” Harper.
This is further evidence that Mr. Harper has no idea whatsoever about how to implement National Security measures that are Canadian and effective. We need to raise up and pay our own security forces by enlarging the size of our Armed Forces, our Border Security Forces, our Internal Security Forces and our Intelligence Forces.
Once trained and hired we can deploy them and other security forces to guard our borders, protect our people and resources and interests; and secure our democratic values, institutions and processes which guarantee our Liberties. We have the best Armed Forces personnel in the world. Why should we seek help from lesser soldiers with more violent values?
If once we invite American security forces to do our internal security jobs we will soon be wishing we still had authority to make independent decisions about our resources, our politics, our culture, our business ethos, and our society with its peaceful emphasis.
Look at Lebanon and Iraq and many other countries where Americans have come to help. They have been reduced to ruin and chaos by the best intentions in the world. Canada is too important a resource to put it at risk of careless destruction.
Because Stephen Harper does not know what to do he is convinced that no one else could possibly know how to do it: to do the Prime Minister's job right in accordance with current Administrative methods as taught in all great universities and in keeping with our Canadian Parliamentary traditions. He prefers shallow ideology to science and trustworthy and proven methodology and he has attacked our Liberties and Parliamentary system with great zeal.
Doing this Administration work and National Security planning requires a lifetime of diligent preparation and study of Administration and Governance, history and ideas and humanity and legislative methodology. Stephen Harper has not done that work!
Why doesn't the Prime Minister know? Lack of diligence and skills sets! He also has no Canadian military intelligence and it shows in his thuggish, undisciplined and disrespectful behaviour. So he passes responsibility to foreign powers instead of seeking Canadian solutions.
Mr. Harper seeks the easy way through this security blip on our large Canadian radar screen. He seeks a plan that agrees with and furthers his agenda to sell Canada to the lowest corporate bidder or give it away to his American backers. He has no plan whatsoever for the threats to Canada that are developing in the current Crisis.
Canada is MORE than GNP. We are a remarkable and valuable asset in a world of chaos and violence. I will stand up for and fight for our Canada and not his pale imitation.
Our people are exceptional in every way and this includes our Security Forces of all kinds and levels. We simply need leadership that knows how to implement and deploy them for our own national interests.
Mr. Harper wants to sell Canada for a bowl of stew - “ a bowl of pottage”. He seeks to steal and sell our collective heritage and I mean to stop him and deliver real Hope, first to Canadians, and then to all nations and people in the global community. I will need your help to do it.
Read the brief essay set Building The Canadian Dream and then help us to make that Dream real for all Canadians and for our families around the world. This is an easy and inexpensive plan. It is a dignified and independent action that will help to make the Canadian Dream real for generations to come.
This Plan utilizes that important core Principle of political leadership and economic philosophy of the 21st Century - Success with Less - more success with less investment. Am I the only one who sees how to do this? No more fake lakes! I want to see real lakes cleaned up instead.
We need a real home grown Canadian National Security Strategy that involves investing in Canadians to train them and give them real meaningful employment in our security net. We need to train and hire sufficient security and intelligence forces within our borders to protect ourselves and our neighbours who are stressed and stretched to the breaking point already. This will help to build and drive the new economic model of “Sustainability in all things.”
Presently we are in jeopardy from enemies and friends alike - and even from our Prime Minister and his government. This can be quickly and easily changed. The Plan I have in mind will result in strengthening our independent sovereignty and that of our neighbours, friends and allies. Any National Security Plan must include an Environmental Protection and Recovery component and our Plan covers that too.
Canada must provide an example and leadership and not simply bow and capitulate to other external forces, American or otherwise.
Canada First!
Peace Pays!
“Don't keep the peace...pass it on.”
...
..
.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Canada - True North Strong and Free
Canada is an amazing country. We enjoy a level of peace, stability, and public security here that is rare in the world and in history. We are at the very heart and axis of The Universal Culture.
The World is no longer easily compartmentalized into isolated segments. People of all places and cultures now have immediate access to one another through amazing transportation and communication systems and we are exposed to all cultures.
These cultures are being melded into one all-encompassing new culture, which I call The Universal Culture. I have had more exposure to the many existent perspectives than some people and now I see a new phenomenon.
In Canada we have more ready access to data from people in all places and of all backgrounds than anyone ever has anywhere at any time up to the present. We have been accepting and tolerant and welcoming as we have woven The Cultural Mosaic.
These are qualities that are much-needed in a world fraught with intolerance and consequent violence in every nook and cranny of life. Here we have also enjoyed levels of freedom and democratic participation that are rare and beautiful. We have an abundance of food, water, and natural resources.
We have a strong economy and until recently we have had governments that sought diligently to serve the populace and the world. They were fair, kind, humane and efficient and embraced our functional democratic systems, values and institutions. They enabled us to care about and for the weak and the vulnerable in our midst.
We have been a Just and Compassionate Society. But all of that is now in jeopardy. Our current government seems to reject democracy or they sorely misunderstand what democracy is - Government of the people, for the People and by the People.
It is our responsibility as The People to remind them and call them to account...and then to govern ourselves in the manner we desire - with Justice and Compassion.
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The World is no longer easily compartmentalized into isolated segments. People of all places and cultures now have immediate access to one another through amazing transportation and communication systems and we are exposed to all cultures.
These cultures are being melded into one all-encompassing new culture, which I call The Universal Culture. I have had more exposure to the many existent perspectives than some people and now I see a new phenomenon.
In Canada we have more ready access to data from people in all places and of all backgrounds than anyone ever has anywhere at any time up to the present. We have been accepting and tolerant and welcoming as we have woven The Cultural Mosaic.
These are qualities that are much-needed in a world fraught with intolerance and consequent violence in every nook and cranny of life. Here we have also enjoyed levels of freedom and democratic participation that are rare and beautiful. We have an abundance of food, water, and natural resources.
We have a strong economy and until recently we have had governments that sought diligently to serve the populace and the world. They were fair, kind, humane and efficient and embraced our functional democratic systems, values and institutions. They enabled us to care about and for the weak and the vulnerable in our midst.
We have been a Just and Compassionate Society. But all of that is now in jeopardy. Our current government seems to reject democracy or they sorely misunderstand what democracy is - Government of the people, for the People and by the People.
It is our responsibility as The People to remind them and call them to account...and then to govern ourselves in the manner we desire - with Justice and Compassion.
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.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Diligence
Diligence is the persistent, industrious effort to carry a task or enterprise to a successful conclusion. To stay focused, attention fixed upon completing the job, always pressing pressing pressing against all obstacles and opinion, until all is finished: here is a component of Success.
Organized productivity with built up and sustained momentum fixed upon an object, a goal, a desire or achievement is more likely to end with successful results than will sporadic, chaotic, indifferent efforts. Life's like that.
In earlier ages, even in my childhood [lol], Diligence was regarded as a virtue. It was a desirable character and personality trait. Sadly, this virtuous trait has come to be regarded with the same suspicion that has called all classical and/or traditional values into question.
It was another case of “throwing the baby out with the bath water.” Those who have managed to retain or implement this and other virtues have risen above the crowd in this age as in every previous age.
Diligence will be required if we hope to survive and succeed as a nation and as a species.
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Organized productivity with built up and sustained momentum fixed upon an object, a goal, a desire or achievement is more likely to end with successful results than will sporadic, chaotic, indifferent efforts. Life's like that.
In earlier ages, even in my childhood [lol], Diligence was regarded as a virtue. It was a desirable character and personality trait. Sadly, this virtuous trait has come to be regarded with the same suspicion that has called all classical and/or traditional values into question.
It was another case of “throwing the baby out with the bath water.” Those who have managed to retain or implement this and other virtues have risen above the crowd in this age as in every previous age.
Diligence will be required if we hope to survive and succeed as a nation and as a species.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
With Heads Firmly In Place: Universal Dental Care
Universal Dental Care In The Province Of Ontario
How do we separate dental health from general health? How can we conceptually deny the intimate connection between a healthy mouth and a healthy body, mind and spirit?
Dental problems are painful, embarrassing, distracting and debilitating. Much productivity is lost in our society due to dental problems.
And dental problems are clearly associated with a wide variety of other health concerns from stomach cancer to kidney and bladder disorders to prostate gland inflammation, all of which place further pressure on our medical delivery systems.
Few common human experiences are more painful and distressing than a toothache. It’s the kind of pain that steals sleep and peace and concentration.
The infection in an abscessed tooth flows freely through the entire bloodstream and cannot be dissociated from the body at a practical level. Even existing definitions of insurable medical conditions have not managed to remove everyone’s heads...yet.
The Canadian Dental Association (dentists) are all in agreement that early and persistent care according to agreed upon maintenance practices are the best policy in caring for people’s teeth (and therefore people).
Their ads on television and all of their individual and collective communications with the Canadian Public say the same thing with perfect consistency. Yet they seem largely agreed that this policy should not be public policy.
So much more could be done for the dental health and overall well-being of people with so much less if this were public policy. Rather these ads become a humiliating message to all who lack complete access to proper care as prescribed by dentists in general. "You cannot get your teeth fixed so too bad for you!"
Dentists should take note that other forms of health care delivery have prospered their colleagues in the medical professions. The merely financial benefits for practitioners from these integrated systems have reached far beyond anything imagined at the moment of conception, or even at its birth. And it has helped all Canadians as well.
Let me clarify that I am not merely suggesting universal dental treatment. I mean dental care. By providing dental care and preventative treatment through government based programs we could reap great benefits as a Province [Ontario], as a Nation [Canada], as a People [Canadians].
For instance, a report about Emergency room traffic in Ontario hospitals revealed that over fifty percent of ER visits were not emergencies and a large proportion of these visits were related to dental problems.
Helping people care for their teeth would also relieve some of the undue pressures placed on hospital staff by sheer volume of clients at Emergency Rooms and other facilities. It would also relieve pressure on the public medical care delivery system, on the Province, and the on Federal Budget.
Healthier people are simply happier, more co-operative, and more productive members of society. Many of our citizens (often the poor or very poor) do not know how to care for their mouths and teeth.
Consequently they’re embarrassed both by the appearance of their teeth and by the suffering that accompanies dental infections and other oral problems. And these people cannot afford to pay someone to help them care for their teeth.
But we have the technologies, the administrative methods, the technologists, the dentists: the system components with which we could eliminate this sad pressure on people and on society. We even have the funding.
All we lack is the Will and a Vision of a Nation where people’s heads are attached to their bodies in the world of political and bureaucratic decision-making.
We need Universal Dental Care in The Province of Ontario. This would help the poor, the artists, our institutions, our finances, our work force, everyone!
Then dental practitioners could see a more even and widespread benefit to their society. They would also find even more reason for pride in their individual and collective work.
Life is a team sport and the collective skill, intelligence and creativity of our dentists could help transform Canada into that place about which we Dream.
Tommy Douglas was recently voted Canada’s “Greatest” citizen by an enthusiastic Public using media technology [TV + Internet + telephones + computers].
This former Premier of Saskatchewan won the hearts and devotion and gratitude of all Canadians through the introduction of “medicare”; government sponsored and supervised medical treatment for all citizens with no user fee.
Apparently the concept has become a hit. In spite of initial hostility and opposition it was soon adopted in all Provinces and became a Federal Government Policy.
This was an act of general compassion towards the Canadian People on the part of Mr. Douglas and his colleagues, the Members of The Saskatchewan Legislature.
Canadians still desire compassion and we like to express it in our societal systems. Let’s embrace compassion and heal the sore mouths, heads, and other suffering parts of Canadians, which result from dental problems.
Let us affirm once again that our mouths are in our heads and that our heads remain firmly in place, attached to our bodies. Our teeth need funding just as our waterfowl do and just as our culture does, and just as our international reputation does.
Canadians are in need of publicly founded, funded and managed Dental Education and Care just as we do for our bodies, minds, eyes, ears, feet, and all other areas of human medical specialization.
Dentists want to help people and such a system will enable a more balanced sharing of resources that will very quickly make us all richer, more productive, healthier and happier. It will make us an even greater nation. Dentists will earn more and the overall costs will be reduced for Canada and Canadians.
Our public medical care system is something that distinguishes us as a nation internationally. It’s an expression of the Justice and Compassion that characterize the Canadian identity. It's a Canadian success story.
Today there is much earnest debate about the future of medicare and many models are being proposed and implemented in response to perceived conditions and circumstances.
Some might prefer to eliminate medicare entirely and let Canadians return to a former and more primitive method of caring for themselves, their families, their neighbours and everyone across this great land.
The Medicare system has served Canadians well as individuals and as a nation. It employs a workforce of competent and well-trained medical practitioners.
Yet costs are skyrocketing and personnel are in short supply. So far no one has successfully suggested that we employ reliable preventative health systems. I know these exist and are available. We could implement these for dental care.
Doctors have also prospered far beyond what most of them would have managed without government medical delivery systems. Everyone wins in these public agreements; at least everyone should win.
When Mr. Douglas introduced the Bill for Universal Medicare in The Saskatchewan Legislature, his plan and dream was not to stop with this step and measure. He pointed out that hospital insurance had been the first step and had been received warmly and economically by the society.
Medicare, he added, was the second step. “Optometrics”, treatment for eyes and access to eye-wear funding, was third. [This is something that has been of great importance to me as a former blind person who received restorative eye surgery which was paid for by the Canadian people via OHIP. Thank you.]
And the jewel in Premier Douglas’ medical crown of coverage was intended to be dental care. After all, nothing gives that final luster to a person like a bright, shiny, healthy smile.
I believe it could be easily demonstrated that we could deliver better and universally accessible dental care to the citizens of Canada with less cost. Rather than tearing away that single thing which Canadians have proven is closest to their collective community heart in choosing Tommy Douglas as The Greatest Canadian, we should complete his Dream.
While others call for a compromise of the health care system, I call for the logical expansion to follow the first three steps already accomplished in this persistent Canadian Dream.
We should institute Universal Dental Care in The Province of Ontario, and then in all provinces, territories and regions of Canada. Dental problems are a plague on our citizens and economy and we could change that easily, inexpensively, and quickly.
These previous Medicare measures have stabilized and civilized Canada and have made this the best place in the world to live.
Be brave. Move forward and grasp The Dream. I call upon Premier McGuinty and all provincial and territorial leaders to embrace this dream and help all Canadians.
Legislate equality in dental care for Ontarions and Canadians!
Peace.
RJW
“Don’t keep the peace…pass it on.”
“Life is a team sport.”
...
..
.
How do we separate dental health from general health? How can we conceptually deny the intimate connection between a healthy mouth and a healthy body, mind and spirit?
Dental problems are painful, embarrassing, distracting and debilitating. Much productivity is lost in our society due to dental problems.
And dental problems are clearly associated with a wide variety of other health concerns from stomach cancer to kidney and bladder disorders to prostate gland inflammation, all of which place further pressure on our medical delivery systems.
Few common human experiences are more painful and distressing than a toothache. It’s the kind of pain that steals sleep and peace and concentration.
The infection in an abscessed tooth flows freely through the entire bloodstream and cannot be dissociated from the body at a practical level. Even existing definitions of insurable medical conditions have not managed to remove everyone’s heads...yet.
The Canadian Dental Association (dentists) are all in agreement that early and persistent care according to agreed upon maintenance practices are the best policy in caring for people’s teeth (and therefore people).
Their ads on television and all of their individual and collective communications with the Canadian Public say the same thing with perfect consistency. Yet they seem largely agreed that this policy should not be public policy.
So much more could be done for the dental health and overall well-being of people with so much less if this were public policy. Rather these ads become a humiliating message to all who lack complete access to proper care as prescribed by dentists in general. "You cannot get your teeth fixed so too bad for you!"
Dentists should take note that other forms of health care delivery have prospered their colleagues in the medical professions. The merely financial benefits for practitioners from these integrated systems have reached far beyond anything imagined at the moment of conception, or even at its birth. And it has helped all Canadians as well.
Let me clarify that I am not merely suggesting universal dental treatment. I mean dental care. By providing dental care and preventative treatment through government based programs we could reap great benefits as a Province [Ontario], as a Nation [Canada], as a People [Canadians].
For instance, a report about Emergency room traffic in Ontario hospitals revealed that over fifty percent of ER visits were not emergencies and a large proportion of these visits were related to dental problems.
Helping people care for their teeth would also relieve some of the undue pressures placed on hospital staff by sheer volume of clients at Emergency Rooms and other facilities. It would also relieve pressure on the public medical care delivery system, on the Province, and the on Federal Budget.
Healthier people are simply happier, more co-operative, and more productive members of society. Many of our citizens (often the poor or very poor) do not know how to care for their mouths and teeth.
Consequently they’re embarrassed both by the appearance of their teeth and by the suffering that accompanies dental infections and other oral problems. And these people cannot afford to pay someone to help them care for their teeth.
But we have the technologies, the administrative methods, the technologists, the dentists: the system components with which we could eliminate this sad pressure on people and on society. We even have the funding.
All we lack is the Will and a Vision of a Nation where people’s heads are attached to their bodies in the world of political and bureaucratic decision-making.
We need Universal Dental Care in The Province of Ontario. This would help the poor, the artists, our institutions, our finances, our work force, everyone!
Then dental practitioners could see a more even and widespread benefit to their society. They would also find even more reason for pride in their individual and collective work.
Life is a team sport and the collective skill, intelligence and creativity of our dentists could help transform Canada into that place about which we Dream.
Tommy Douglas was recently voted Canada’s “Greatest” citizen by an enthusiastic Public using media technology [TV + Internet + telephones + computers].
This former Premier of Saskatchewan won the hearts and devotion and gratitude of all Canadians through the introduction of “medicare”; government sponsored and supervised medical treatment for all citizens with no user fee.
Apparently the concept has become a hit. In spite of initial hostility and opposition it was soon adopted in all Provinces and became a Federal Government Policy.
This was an act of general compassion towards the Canadian People on the part of Mr. Douglas and his colleagues, the Members of The Saskatchewan Legislature.
Canadians still desire compassion and we like to express it in our societal systems. Let’s embrace compassion and heal the sore mouths, heads, and other suffering parts of Canadians, which result from dental problems.
Let us affirm once again that our mouths are in our heads and that our heads remain firmly in place, attached to our bodies. Our teeth need funding just as our waterfowl do and just as our culture does, and just as our international reputation does.
Canadians are in need of publicly founded, funded and managed Dental Education and Care just as we do for our bodies, minds, eyes, ears, feet, and all other areas of human medical specialization.
Dentists want to help people and such a system will enable a more balanced sharing of resources that will very quickly make us all richer, more productive, healthier and happier. It will make us an even greater nation. Dentists will earn more and the overall costs will be reduced for Canada and Canadians.
Our public medical care system is something that distinguishes us as a nation internationally. It’s an expression of the Justice and Compassion that characterize the Canadian identity. It's a Canadian success story.
Today there is much earnest debate about the future of medicare and many models are being proposed and implemented in response to perceived conditions and circumstances.
Some might prefer to eliminate medicare entirely and let Canadians return to a former and more primitive method of caring for themselves, their families, their neighbours and everyone across this great land.
The Medicare system has served Canadians well as individuals and as a nation. It employs a workforce of competent and well-trained medical practitioners.
Yet costs are skyrocketing and personnel are in short supply. So far no one has successfully suggested that we employ reliable preventative health systems. I know these exist and are available. We could implement these for dental care.
Doctors have also prospered far beyond what most of them would have managed without government medical delivery systems. Everyone wins in these public agreements; at least everyone should win.
When Mr. Douglas introduced the Bill for Universal Medicare in The Saskatchewan Legislature, his plan and dream was not to stop with this step and measure. He pointed out that hospital insurance had been the first step and had been received warmly and economically by the society.
Medicare, he added, was the second step. “Optometrics”, treatment for eyes and access to eye-wear funding, was third. [This is something that has been of great importance to me as a former blind person who received restorative eye surgery which was paid for by the Canadian people via OHIP. Thank you.]
And the jewel in Premier Douglas’ medical crown of coverage was intended to be dental care. After all, nothing gives that final luster to a person like a bright, shiny, healthy smile.
I believe it could be easily demonstrated that we could deliver better and universally accessible dental care to the citizens of Canada with less cost. Rather than tearing away that single thing which Canadians have proven is closest to their collective community heart in choosing Tommy Douglas as The Greatest Canadian, we should complete his Dream.
While others call for a compromise of the health care system, I call for the logical expansion to follow the first three steps already accomplished in this persistent Canadian Dream.
We should institute Universal Dental Care in The Province of Ontario, and then in all provinces, territories and regions of Canada. Dental problems are a plague on our citizens and economy and we could change that easily, inexpensively, and quickly.
These previous Medicare measures have stabilized and civilized Canada and have made this the best place in the world to live.
Be brave. Move forward and grasp The Dream. I call upon Premier McGuinty and all provincial and territorial leaders to embrace this dream and help all Canadians.
Legislate equality in dental care for Ontarions and Canadians!
Peace.
RJW
“Don’t keep the peace…pass it on.”
“Life is a team sport.”
...
..
.
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