B10 - BC REFED’s IDEAS ARE SPREADING [another province realizes that our political system needs challenging and changing]


 

BC Refed’s ideas are taking hold

Refed’s ideas are crossing borders. Voters in other Canadian provinces, and even in other countries, are realizing that BC Refed’s concepts are sound. People are awakening to the fact that it is our political system itself which is the root problem.
People want strong leadership that offers coherent solutions, and BC Refed is filling that leadership role today.
The concept of re-federating means the changing of the rules of the Canadian “confederation” - changing rules that are used by Ottawa to force the provinces into line - to control us.

BC Refed’s seeds are germinating in other Canadian provinces

In Alberta the Citizens Center for Freedom and Democracy (CCFD) is preaching the need for proper Canadian and provincial constitutions, and the need for citizen control over government. They advocate refederation. In the summer of 2007 the provincial Wildrose Party of Alberta was started to take on Ottawa.

In Ontario two persons are corresponding with BC Refed about our policies, and one of them is looking into forming an Ontario Refed party. In the summer of 2007 the Ontario Alternative Party was started with a stated intention of seeking “outside the box” solutions for Ontarians. Outside the box thinking eventually leads to refederation thinking.

In Quebec a lawyer of considerable standing has agreed with the BC Refed stance that the Ottawa government and establishment is de facto (unlawful).

In Newfoundland the provincial government’s symbolic removal of the central government’s flag from provincial buildings shows a willingness to act against Ottawa. The people of Newfoundland realize that more than 50 years of taking handouts from the central government has not helped that province.

BC Refed concepts are surfacing in other countries

Britain

In Britain people are organizing against their government. One magazine alone gathered 1 million petition signatures hoping to keep Britain out of the “United States of Europe”. (This England - www.thisengland.co.uk ) In Switzerland of course the people are long past the dark ages of petitioning their government. 50 000 Swiss signatures will trigger an automatic referendum binding on government. That’s because the Swiss have insisted on a written constitution in which the people gave themselves the right to such referendum control. Britons have no right to a referendum and no written constitution. What passes for a constitution in Britain is what a collection of judges have decided - the people have no say. So much for England being the birthplace of democracy… But now millions of Brits are waking up.

Referendum in France and Belgium
In early 2005 the people of these two countries voted overwhelmingly against the proposed European constitution. Bureaucrats wrote a European constitution that would have excluded the people from the decision making process. The first time the people of Europe were given the chance, they voted the proposed constitution down.

Germany
In Germany a similar situation to Canada seems to exist.

First, the Allied occupation of Germany began 58 years ago and, for Germany, World War II lacks formal legal closure because a peace treaty has never been signed between the Allies and Germany.

Second, although the German nation is considered to be a modern European democracy today, it has no constitution other than the temporary Basic Law (Grundgesetz) which was originally written in 1948 under the “guidance” of the British and U.S. military occupation forces.

• Article 144 (1) (Ratification of the Basic Law)
  (1) This Basic Law shall require ratification by the parliaments of two thirds of the German Laender [provinces] in which it is initially to apply.

Note that the conquered people were not allowed to vote on the Basic Law. Only the puppet provincial parliaments controled by the Occupation Army in 1948 could vote on it. Therefore the German politicians and their Allied backers voted themselves into power, just as politicians in Canada and in BC have voted themselves into power.
Christian Tomuschat, is a professor of German constitutional law at Berlin’s Humboldt University. Despite the obvious problems with the temporary Basic Law, which has never been ratified by a vote of the people, Tomuschat strangely claims that it is a valid German constitution. In his opinion ”the Grundgesetz is the constitution.”
But, one of the Basic Law’s final articles says it is to be replaced when Germany obtains a constitution.

• Article 146 (Duration of the validity of the Basic Law)
  This Basic Law, which since the achievement of the unity and freedom of Germany applies to the entire German people, shall cease to apply on the day on which a constitution freely adopted by the German people takes effect.

The fact that the flawed and temporary Basic Law serves as Germany’s de facto constitution is unacceptable to Wolfgang Gerhard Günter Ebel. “The German government is illegal,” said Ebel in 2000, “and what they do has no basis in law.” Asked how it could be that the German people are unaware of this situation, Ebel said: “The German media is still under the control of the Allies. The entire media is controlled.”
The facts of this German situation are similar to what has happened to Canada since Canada became a sovereign nation on 10 Jan 1920. Academics and lawyers and politicians and the media in both countries have convinced the people that a proper constitution exists. The (uncritical) Germans and Canadians have believed the story even though no document exists in either country that has been approved by the people.

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