TELL US ABOUT THE CHANGES YOU WANT TO SEE IN CANADA.
Women in Canada are Speaking…
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Canadian National Food Program
Provide all children in Canadian schools from kindergarten to Grade 12 an organic breakfast and lunch. Yes, this will be an investment, however, is it not worth feeding our children who will eventually run our country nourishing food, so their brains form properly. This will help them grow strong and healthy.
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Education
Let us create the best public education system in the world. Let it be challenging and encourage our children to flourish, be creative and realize that they can accomplish anything they put their minds to. Which country has the best education system in the world? Anyone have any ideas?
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Canadian Health Care
Make Canadian hospitals healing centres.
Let’s have naturopaths, homeopaths, osteopaths, massage therapists, specialists in environmental illnesses healing all together so patients can heal the whole body and prevent future illnesses caused by diet and stress.
Exploring Policy Pathways to a Stronger Canada
Innovative ideas to shape a more prosperous, equitable, and sustainable future for Canadians.
Ending the Use of Human Waste on Farmland
Let’s test Canada’s soils with Soil Food Web Labs and stop the use of sludge on our farms. Most sickness comes from a toxic environment. Our air, water, soil, and food supply are highly polluted. Pharmaceutical use continues. All of this ends up in our sewage system which is then spread on our farm fields. Europe banned these practices long ago. Canada and Ontario need to put a stop to this ASAP and begin sludge pond remediation at source before these waste streams are moved through the system.
Scientists have now discovered ways to detoxify PFAS at low temperatures that make this potential a reality.
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Food and Fabrication Policy
As global competition, tariffs and other economic forces change the landscape for working Canadians, we must be ready to create real value jobs for the millions of Canadians who will need them. We have millions of acres of land growing wheat, corn and soy, some of it is GMO and spread with chemical toxins.
We must be self sufficient and grow the food Canadians need to survive. We need lots of natural farmers. In any crisis, we know Canadians of all ages step up. To grow our own food, we will need approximately two million natural farmers. We know Canadians will rise to the occasion. We have thousands of makers and fabrication facilities where we can create millions of jobs to manufacture our needs instead of importing them.
Our over 130,000 landscapers can help put a million people to work regenerating farmland to grow whole food one acre at a time.
These numbers could be far less, however, to create a new natural normal, we will require many more than we have now.
Just an Acre is a local food movement that is transforming and transitioning the productivity and health of soils across Canada. There mission is to restore soil ecology, biology and chemistry as they produce $10,000 per acre instead of the typical $500 for cash crops. They plan to put healthy, local food on the plates of millions of Canadians.
Makersconnect Food and Fabrication Makers
Makers Connect is a national initiative bringing together Canadian fabricators, farmers, manufacturers, commercial kitchens, commissaries, and food preservation experts. Our mission is to stabilize and strengthen food production and manufacturing across Canada by fostering a network of independently strong but cooperatively connected small businesses.
Education, Training, Skills Development, Colleges and Universities
Incentivize young children and adults to learn trades. We must bring back apprenticeship programs to train our youth in the trades Canada requires. With nation building projects on the horizon, let’s train our own residents to build Canada.
Affordable Villages vs Affordable Homes
Governments, the media and Canadians are consistently speaking about the requirement of affordable homes. There is much government policy at all levels of government about the matter. A home does make a healthy village. What Canadians need are jobs and economic opportunity. We used to move to places that offered the economic opportunity and then set up our abode. The affordable home policy must consider the entire aspect of economic potentials and how the interconnection of all aspects are a much more efficient way of creating long term job creation and thriving villages.
Ontario Freedom Food Policy
Growing Up Healthy and Happy – The GUHAH Way Foundation
Their vision is clear – a future where every Canadian child has access to organic meals and education about sustainable organic farming practices in schools across the country. They aim to unite communities, schools, families, and advocate to ensure equitable access to organic food and a sustainable agricultural curriculum at schools.
They strive to empower Canadians and shape legislation to ensure our children grow up healthy and happy.
A strong economy benefits all – owners, managers, workers and investors. The primary objective of the organization is to advocate for the implementation of a Canadian Economic Charter of Rights. The philosophy behind the coalition is that people are not truly free unless they also have economic freedom. The Economic Charter of Rights is a framework for creating a society where citizens have the opportunity to become economically free and businesses have the opportunity to grow and prosper.
Snowbird Tax Policy
Our elders are a national treasure. Many go south for the winter and spend their money in the US and, more importantly, their precious time. This time is a valuable resource of life experiences. Our proposal is to offer tax benefits to our elders to stay in Canada and join Canadian mentorship programs in order to transfer their lifetime of knowledge and experiences to future generations.
From Hospitals to Healing Centres
We support the move for all people in health care to work collaboratively to move our health institutions into healing centres. There was a pilot project at a Scarborough a number of years ago where doctors, nurses, naturopaths, homeopaths, chiropractors, osteopaths, acupuncturists, Chinese medicine experts and others all worked together to care for patients. Wouldn’t it be something to have a section of each hospital in Canada working on patient’s healing to demonstrate effectiveness, long-term results and true health. Dr. Wilbert Keon, a former heart surgeon based at the Heart Institute in Ottawa, once indicated that 80% of the surgeries he performed were preventative. It is nice to see that many current medical students studying family medicine want to work more on prevention then treating symptoms once the disease is already there. Let’s give Canadians the gift of health.
Immigration to Villagenation
Let’s be a villagenation. Let’s create villages like we used to have 50-60-70 years ago. Immigrants come to Canada with a depth of skills. Let’s give them spaces and the tools to hit the ground running and add real value to the local communities they move into.
This would be a valuable and viable solution to putting them in apartments with no tools to express their abilities.
Biomimicry: Job Creation Through Biological Emulation
Nature offers us all free access to the greatest research and development lab to ever exist. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had to go into Xerox labs for their ideas. The Biomimicry approach is accessible to all. It is an endless supply of ideas and opportunities that will create an explosion in job creating potential. By studying and emulating natures ways we will create the opportunity for endless natural inclined healthy and sustainable jobs for all Canadians.
Golf Courses to Villages
If an economy falters, leisure pursuits will give way to the pursuit for essentials. Golfing may not be feasible, as time and money may not be available for leisure activities.
Canada can create thriving, healthy and active communities and villages. Golf course conversion to villages will accelerate the need as golf properties already have extensive infrastructure in place to meet rapidly emerging demands.
Ranchification: Evolving from Horse Farms to Farms with Horses
Global competition is heating up. Canada is facing massive headwinds from emerging market price disparities. Leisure days are over. We need to make our farm properties competitive and useful. Ranches and organic farms will create healthy sustainable jobs and activities. The proposal is for a government subsidy program for those who choose to convert their horse farms to active ranches where food is grown.
Village Urban Renewal Builds
Villages are the highest level of human creation. We take them for granted because of the hardships they remind us of. They came about incrementally over generations and created symphonies of sovereigns influenced by natural pressures.
People living together created a village way of thinking that established written and also very importantly unwritten rules of conduct. When a neighbour ran into difficulties such as the proverbial barn burning down everyone pitched in to help knowing the same would happen for them in a similar circumstance. This was the community insurance program.
As cities grew and became more impersonal, we gradually lost these norms and expectations replaced by ease and the fast-paced life. We have far few opportunities to cultivate important connections to nature and each other.
There are a vast majority of benefits to small town living and modern villages. Combined with traditional hardships and struggles of past times, we have forgotten the great potential of what modern villages and thriving communities where we help our neighbour can offer us today.
The village urban renewal builds policy intends to establish the overwhelming evidence that multidimensional village building versus building simple two-dimensional subdivisions will bring back the invisible intangibles of complex human interactions and dynamics that lead to thriving families and futures.
Natural Resources for Community Building
Canada is the second largest country in the world with an abundance of natural resources and water. NATO direction has Canada spending five percent of Canada&GDP on defense spending. The world does not need more war. We need peace and effective governance. Our natural resources can be earmarked for community and village building.
Build an electric Light Rail Transit (LRT) system along the 407 and create Transit Oriented Develpments (TODs) at each stop along the LRT. A great example is what Vancouver has done with the Canada Line (Vancouver International Airport to Downtown Vancouver). The Canada Line in Vancouver is a living line. People live on the line without a car and use the LRT to get to where they need to go. Each stop is a TOD, and the City of Vancouver planned all 19 stops right from the beginning. They had a vision of the development around each station to create an economy and filled in the gaps so all stations combined had everything a family would need to thrive and move around.
