You, the “Queen” and the Governor General [GG] - 5
Part 4 of this mini series showed that the requirement for Royal Assent is a convention, and that conventions are used by the politicians and judges to change “the rules of the game” and bypass parliament.
This Part 5 exposes the biggest trick of the politician-class - using a statute in place of a proper constitution.
9 Constitutions v Statutes
How did the politicians grip the people of Canada by the hair of their head ? Answer - they dictated to the people the form that government would take in Canada – a form that puts all power with politicians and not with We The People.
We all know the sayings about our free and democratic nation – that politicians are the servants of the people, and parliament rules through the representatives of the people, and so on. And we all know that something is wrong with this picture – that for some reason we do not seem to have government of the people by the people, for the people.
The reality is that politicians wrote the rule book so that politicians have all the political power and the people are only allowed to choose which politicians will hold the people by the hair of their head and lead them with a rope through a nose ring.
In 1982 the politicians passed an Act or statute that gave all Canada’s politicians complete control over Canada’s supposedly sovereign people. Footnote 1.
But ask yourself, where does any government get the authority to pass statutes with the force of law ? Answer, the power to enact a statute comes from the nation’s constitution. But in Canada the nation’s “constitution” is a statute. Neat politician trick. Read that again.
Look at these two definitions. First - “Democracy is when the will of the people prevails”. Second – “the only definition of a constitution that results in democracy is “A Charter of government deriving its whole authority from the governed”.
So where SHOULD a government get its authority to pass statutes ? Answer, from a constitution that has been written and approved by the governed. Such a constitution transfers limited power from the sovereign people to their politicians. That’s democracy.
To turn Trudeau’s statute into a lawful constitution all he had to do was to allow the people to vote on it – to accept it as the supreme law of the land, or to veto it.
Would the people of Canada vote today to accept the present form of Canada’s government, where politicians have total power over the people ? Possibly not, but with one simple and powerful amendment to the Constitution Act, 1982, the people could get a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. The people can insist on their right to install a government that is under their control between elections. Here’s how.
10 Democracy, for a change – at last
The citizens are the shareholders in the big corporation called Canada and the corporation must allow the shareholders to approve the structure of the corporation, or to alter it by changing its Charter. The shareholders of the corporation must have the right to vote the Board of Directors in and out, and the right to do so at a special general meeting at any time. All corporations operate this way, and Canada is a corporation.
The charter of one of the most prosperous nations on earth was written by its shareholders, not by the Board of Directors. The shareholders of Switzerland gave themselves the RIGHT in the Charter to veto the Board of Directors, with the result that their corporation is run the way the shareholders want it run. All power in the corporation comes from the shareholders, who wrote the rules – the corporate Charter.
The Canadian people need only add a simple but powerful control mechanism to Canada’s corporate Charter. They need the same right that the Swiss have to occasionally step in and correct the actions of their politicians if necessary. If Trudeau’s Constitution Act 1982 added such a mechanism then the people in a national referendum could safely approve it, and change it from a statute into a lawful constitution. The people would then control the politicians, and that’s democracy.
Footnote 1. Constitution Act, 1982 Sec 52. (1) The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law of Canada,…
Overview of this whole 7 part series
1 The Principle of Self Determination
2 The end of lawful government in Canada
3 The start of unlawful government in Canada
4 The continuation of unlawful government – 1982
5 Who is the Queen of Canada ?
6 The Crown – separating myth from reality
7 Giving Royal Assent to Canada’s laws
8 Law v Convention
9 Constitutions v Statutes
10 Democracy in Canada, for a change, at last
11 Democracy in Canada – a dream or a possibility ?
12 Setting up the BC model
13 Using the BC model to bring Ottawa under control
14 Back to the Queen and the Governor General issue
15 Summary