Canada, Are You Ready For Sovereignty Light?
Original Post By: CanuckPolitics
“Sovereignty — authority over one’s own existence — can apply to the individual, the community and the nation-state”
“The alternative — “globalisation” — is an economic theory which destroys the ability of individuals, communities, and nation-states to determine their own existence. It destroys their sovereignty”
January 28, 2010 -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper urged nations to practice “enlightened sovereignty” in his keynote speech to the 2010 Wold Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“Nations rooted in a narrow view of sovereignty and national self interest must be reconsidered. We cannot do business as though for one to have more, another must have less. That is not true, it is not just, and it cannot be the path we take … Our ambition … must be a shared belief that the rising tide of recovery must lift all boats, not just some. This is the exercise of soverignty at its most enlightened.” -- Stephen Harper
Globalisation has been defined as:
“The ever-increasing integration of national economies into the global economy through trade and investment rules and privatization,
aided by technological advances. These reduce barriers to trade and investment and in the process reduce democratic controls by nation
states and their communities over their economic affairs. The process is driven by the theory of comparative advantage, the goal of
international competitiveness and the growth model. It is occurring increasingly at the expense of social, environmental and labour
improvements and rising inequality for most of the world.”
“Globalisation means de-regulating trading conditions and taking power away from governments and peoples”
“An organism which cannot control its borders — whether economic or physical — is not sovereign.
Elements on both the Left and the Right of politics are opposed to the control of borders.
Some left-wingers want a world without economic and physical borders because they want to see the destruction of the nation-state.
Some right-wingers want a world without economic and physical borders because their “free market” economic theories demand it. These people have elevated a means — an economic theory — into the end in itself and they follow it wherever it leads … even to national dissolution.”
Please take the time to read The Seven Principles Of Sovereignty and compare them to what Mr. Harper is suggesting Canada participates in and ask yourself, What kind of Canada are we going to be living in? Has the will of the people become obsolete?
The Seven Principles Of Sovereignty
More Statements On Canadas Participation In Global Governance By: Stephen Harper
