|
Summary:
|
- To redistribute wealth to ensure social health
- To regulate society and industry
- Manage natural resources to achieve maximum public benefit
- Government needs to interfere to connect market imperfections
- Welfare state makes capitalism bearable
- Big government is better then corporation, but has much worse public relations
- Government can increase economic efficiency by reducing imperfections
|
Summary: Issue:
Solutions:
|
Issue:
- Corporate influence bureau influence unelected
- Lack of trust
- Elitism and competitiveness discourage involvement
- Idea that all politicians are dishonest
- Broken promises trust actions
- Hypocrisy
- Power being used inappropriately
- Advertising
- Industry
- Political Leadership
- Whip Votes
- Power of Leader
- Media Influence
- Unelected influence
- Lobbyists are barriers to civil groups/ citizens engaging with elected leadership
- No action all talk
- Partisan bickering
- Political spectrum polarized
Solutions:
- Radical transparency
- Common ground shared objective collaboration
- Connect on a personal level and learn how to have conversations with people we disagree with.
- Book - “I think you are wrong but I’m listening”
- Change partisan vote system. I vote Green just because rather than for specific MLA
- Walking the talk, relationship building
- Restoring dignity to the political process
- Rise above partisan politics
- Change relationship from vertical to horizontal
- Initiatives in the platform to collaborate (as always) and support not-typical politicians to get elected
- Human connection
- Personal calls and canvassers
- Change the language. Government is simple an extension of us
- Perception education promoting collaboration
- Emphasis that politicians are people
- Support Independent journalism. Ex. National Observer
- Have more access to politics and normalize politics with society
- Political courage vision beyond election cycle
- Changing “leader” dominance model
- Pendulum swing
- Middle Ground
- Government should lead with consideration not follow the loudest complainers
- Swing ridings
- How to avoid manipulation from taking control?
- Unlimited input to be answered
- Leading positive change for all individual
- Gain/image
- Really open government
- Real accountability
|
Summary:
|
Issue:
- Youth think politics is a joke full of the old white men that don’t listen
- Perception
- Government is made up of established elites
- Politics is competitive so “ I shouldn’t get involved.”
- Lack of Inclusivity or Welcoming/outreach to young
- A different generation - youth don’t feel included or like their voices are heard and therefore don’t feel connected
- For older, more experienced people
Solutions:
- We need more politicians that are not career politicians from diverse backgrounds
- Minorities
- Women
- LGBTQ+
- BIPOC etc.
- Young People
- Real People
- Better K-12 education, on government
- Seeing yourself represented as a candidate
- Parties need to make candidacy more accessible
- Create youth levels of government to match
- Giving youth more voice
- 16 voting age
- Mandatory voting
- Not properly taught in school
- Seen as boring
- “Term limits”
- Candidate selection
|
Summary:
|
- Revisit the Community Charter and Local Gov’t Act to strike a new deal with local gov’ts
- Provide more stable funding (and much greater funding) to local gov’t given the huge increase in costs related & climate change
- Governance changes to community charter/ LG Act
- Local government focus
- Local government more trustworthy
- Outcome based ideas
- Fuels on the ground
- Local government reform
- Councillors - barriers to becoming a councillor ex.. childcare leave
- Funding and powers
|
Summary:
|
- Make policy evidence based, ally with science medical & other experts
- Continue to propose legislation that is good for everyone in BC in collaboration with other parties
- Governance changes, ex. 60% threshold for budget/ supply/ confidence bills, motions
- Awards for civil servants achieving incredible things ex. Michael Lewis - In it for mission not the money
- Facedown denialism
- Compassionately address real feelings/experience with science and traditional knowledge
- Honest, critical, skeptical
- Every party having access to legislative drafters
|
Summary:
|
- Building communities must be balanced with a provincial/national cooperative approach
- Preventative issues
- Address increasing frequency/ severity or emergencies/ disasters in BC (possible creation of Ministry or Emergency management)
- Accountability
- Regulations
- Corporate Power
- Forward Looking Innovation
- Ex. Green Economy
- Move away from BCGP as an “Island Party”
- Highlight successes
- Lobbyist Reform
- Big money out of politics
- Certain Policies Ex. MSP. sanitary napkins in bathrooms
- Elections Canada
- Increase youth vote
- Encourage use of open source software where practical
- Safeguard privacy of citizens
- Focus education on values that cross party lines
- Encourage the use of open source software in government and private sector
- Politician stay connected to their team
- Green support team
- Stay connected with community
- Spend more on education
- Passing Pro-rep not in a referendum but promise to vote on it after two elections under the new system
|
Summary:
|
- Work with all parties joint “booths” at community events
- Convention accessibility
- Money
- Location
- Perception that CASA works and parties can work together to govern and yet still have opposition
- Platform of honesty
- Ability to work across party lines for the benefit of all British Columbians
- Vision beyond election cycle