I feel strongly that the best leaders are ones who are called to office rather than ones who grasp at it. Pierre Trudeau was a radical academic labour lawyer. He really could not be bought by power interests, he was his own man love him or hate him. Always I admired the man though not always his views, and I hope to see that trait in the son: Justin has the potential to become the leader without having to compromise himself so deeply that he has nothing of himself left to offer the country. At the moment I am not enamoured of his flowery rhetoric but his campaign is new. I will use this page as an index to my articles. I hope others will contribute their free thinking arguments as well. Let's build some "New Politics" that surpasses what the NDP and old time American Democrats had in mind. I yearn for politics which leans on "what will work" as opposed to what is left or right of centre.
- Radical Thoughts for New Liberalism in Canada This introduces the series of articles.
- The eDemocracy Age. In the age of social networking the populace is ready to be taken more seriously. People now want more power in shaping decisions even before their leaders consider them.
- Stop Government Funding for Failure Details how government services can be restructured to juice up tired bureaucracies with the sort of enthusiasm of new business enterprises.
- Wellness model for Medicare: Funding for Health . This short article lays the foundation for a possible new funding program for medicare that will actually reward the medical sysem for making us well as efficiently and effectively as they know how.
- Fair Enterprise the Flip Side of Fair Trade. The Liberal party is caught without between being a party of economic capitalist development, and a party favoring social program development. This article provides an outline for supporting a party that wants to make Free enterprise solutions to work everywhere in a socially supportable way,
