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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