Angry in the Great White North

From VoteWorldGovernment.org, led by Jim Stark of Shawville, Quebec (in the riding of Pontiac, as it happens):

A directly-elected, representative and democratic world government is now being created by people from all nations, using the Internet.

The United Nations is a gathering place of national governments. It is not, and will never become, the democratic and representative world government that we need. So, ordinary people are conducting a global referendum on the Internet to obtain a “clear and compelling” mandate from the human race for the creation of a representative, democratic and “corruption-proofed” world government that will do whatever must be done so that we will never again need to fear the wreckage of war, and so that we can survive and thrive, as a species, for millions of years into the future.

So what does this have to do with David Smith?

My own MP for the “riding” (that’s Canadianese for “constituency”) of Pontiac is David Smith. He came to our home two weeks ago and heard me out and said “This is something that Canadians just might be ready for … I need a couple of weeks to show your document around to a few others on the Hill including my friend Pierre Pettigrew, who happens to be Minister of Foreign Affairs (!), and then we’ll talk again." I’m in favor of that. I can’t wait to hear back from him.

That was back in September of 2004 (when, in a shocking coincidence, David Smith was named an "aboriginal leader" by the Young Liberals of Canada -- cue "The X-Files" music).

OK, I don't want to give David Smith a hard time over this one. As an MP, one of his jobs is to listen intently to every member of his riding and appear to take everyone's concerns very seriously, even the ones that figure that by 2014, they'll have sufficient votes in a world-wide internet-based referendum to implement a single planetary government.

As of December 2005, they were up to 1,310 votes. Nine years and several billion votes to go.

But to lead Jim Stark on with promises to have a serious discussion with his "friend" Pierre Pettigrew seems a bit cruel. The gratuitous name-dropping was really not necessary.

Unless David Smith really thought the idea was a winner. Did he really tell Stark that Canadians are ready for this?

Maybe a Canadian MP should be more careful in telling constituents that as part of his oath, he serves Canadians and Canadian interests, with loyalty to the Crown. Usurping the Canadian Parliament and replacing it with some UN-like nightmare doesn't fit into that plan.

Did Smith really show this document around the Hill? Did he really show it to Pierre Pettigrew? With a straight face?

How would David Smith sell this portion of the plan that "guarantees" that the world government would be free of corruption?

All elected DWG [Democratic World Government] representatives (meaning elected politicians) and senior DWG civil servants can lead “recorded lives,” meaning they would be “wired” during their working hours, and not allowed to discuss business when they are off-duty (and not wired). While on duty, they can wear or carry a voice-activated tape recorder (or the digital equivalent of same). All recordings can be transcribed, daily, and all such transcripts should be posted on the Internet (or otherwise made available over the Internet).

Oh yeah. This is an idea that is certain to get a lot of support within the circles of the Liberal Party of Canada!

Nah. This is just too silly to take seriously. Normally, the charge of promoting a constituent's idea to replace the Canadian government with this Orwellian farce is not something that is easily dismissed, and yet I can't help but smirk at the absurdity of it all.

By the way, no response back from the one-world folks on whether David Smith ever got back to them, or what the response was to their plan.