Please present this petition to Your Federal, State, Province, or City Legislature Representatives
Petition: Complete Transparency of Elected Officials at beginning of their career in the Legislature and just before they retire from the Legislature. The Public deserves and demands Transparency-Accountability Always from their Representatives.
a. We Request that all officials elected to a governmental body with the ability/power/appointed authority to purchase/manipulate/influence or establish the purchasing/direction/influence of governmental services/property and public policy should reveal fully their personal financial worth before entering and pursuing their office’s practices.
b. Further, whatever the period of these mentioned elected officials may be, the same financial present-day revelation be made before they retire their office.
Purpose: To ensure the complete honesty, and incorruptible nature of those who wish to serve in public office.
Historically many questions have been raised about our public official’s honesty and incorruptibility, whether challenged through national security or criminal procedures.
1. Have they been unduly influenced by foreign, criminal, or corporate agents?
2. Are they open to bribery and manipulation?
3. Do they have financial resources hidden in foreign banking centers?
It is essential that all elected officials, whether they be Municipal, Provincial, or Federal, be effectively incorruptible, honest, and able to carry out their jobs for the people. A procedure starting with a thorough financial and personal investigation of each individual will end with this procedure being applied before these individuals leave office. If someone was worth, let’s say $350,000 and after 5 years in office is worth $2.3 Million, the public deserves and has the obligation to be told how this to happen. Full disclosure is required.
Many will say that the procedure will limit the number of candidates for public office. I say it will keep the rift-raft out of the office and present the public with an honest, trustworthy Civic, Provincial, or Federal Government. What are our security agencies in any way? Begin investigations that will weed out potential and real corruption.
This is an actual petition. If the subjects this petition concerns are honest and standup people they will have nothing to fear.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the NDP is caving to political pressure from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre when it comes to their stance on the consumer carbon price.
Trudeau says he believes Jagmeet Singh and the NDP care about the environment, but it’s “increasingly obvious” that they have “no idea” what to do about climate change.
On Thursday, Singh said the NDP is working on a plan that wouldn’t put the burden of fighting climate change on the backs of workers, but wouldn’t say if that plan would include a consumer carbon price.
Singh’s noncommittal position comes as the NDP tries to frame itself as a credible alternative to the Conservatives in the next federal election.
Poilievre responded to that by releasing a video, pointing out that the NDP has voted time and again in favour of the Liberals’ carbon price.
British Columbia Premier David Eby also changed his tune on Thursday, promising that a re-elected NDP government would scrap the long-standing carbon tax and shift the burden to “big polluters,” if the federal government dropped its requirements.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 13, 2024.
Simon Jolin-Barrette, minister responsible for consumer protection, has tabled a bill to force merchants to calculate tips based on the price before tax.
That means on a restaurant bill of $100, suggested tips would be calculated based on $100, not on $114.98 after provincial and federal sales taxes are added.
The bill would also increase the rebate offered to consumers when the price of an item at the cash register is higher than the shelf price, to $15 from $10.
And it would force grocery stores offering a discounted price for several items to clearly list the unit price as well.
Businesses would also have to indicate whether taxes will be added to the price of food products.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2024.
Quebec legislature member Youri Chassin has announced he’s leaving the Coalition Avenir Québec government to sit as an Independent.
He announced the decision shortly after writing an open letter criticizing Premier François Legault’s government for abandoning its principles of smaller government.
In the letter published in Le Journal de Montréal and Le Journal de Québec, Chassin accused the party of falling back on what he called the old formula of throwing money at problems instead of looking to do things differently.
Chassin says public services are more fragile than ever, despite rising spending that pushed the province to a record $11-billion deficit projected in the last budget.
He is the second CAQ member to leave the party in a little more than one week, after economy and energy minister Pierre Fitzgibbon announced Sept. 4 he would leave because he lost motivation to do his job.
Chassin says he has no intention of joining another party and will instead sit as an Independent until the end of his term.
He has represented the Saint-Jérôme riding since the CAQ rose to power in 2018, but has not served in cabinet.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2024.
