11 point Taxpayers Reform Agenda

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    A Taxpayers Reform Agenda

    1. The articulation of strong conservative principles as analternative to the unanimity of the NDP-Liberal-Red Tory

    philosophy, i.e., a democracy of real debate, not sacred trusts.

    2. The establishment of a Party controlled by private citizens,independent of its politicians and political insiders, and their

    tactics of phony involvement, stacking of meetings and instant

    memberships.

    3. The replacement of the carnival atmosphere of politicalconventions orchestrated campaigns, balloons, songs, and free

    booze with the active recruitment of solid candidates and theexamination of philosophy and policy, not image and personality.

    4. The unveiling of the mysteries of party solidarity free andpublic caucus votes before a unanimous position is taken in the

    Commons.

    5. The termination of patronage appointments and positions, aswell as of the public funding of special interest groups.

    6. The development of a randomly chosen Taxpayers Council tohelp legislators assess real public opinion, counteract funded

    political lobby groups, and suggest ways of obtaining directtaxpayer input on government spending.

    7. The ending of special status of the political class the ending ofheckling and juvenile behavior in Parliament, of the exemption of

    Parliament from its own laws, of the right to slander private

    citizens with immunity.

    8. The furthering of constitutional changes for regionalrepresentation, as well as property and resource rights.

    9. The organization of opposition to the attempt to permanentlyentrench constitutional arrangements. (Meech Lake)10.The implementation of the new economics of smallergovernment, regional diversification, non-discriminatory or

    discretionary spending, privatization, fair trade, and less

    expensive and less bureaucratic income transfers.

    11. The identification of Western PC MPs ready to accept thisconventions agenda.

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