The Ontario Referendum!! Vote NO!!

This is NOT participatory democracy (and it really is NOT)

Don MacAlpine
Box 127
Nipigon, Ontario CANADA P0T 2J0
Contact Phone & Fax (807) 887-0708

Regarding the Ontario Referendum.

I was a person who, as a young adult, tried to get on Mulroney's citizen
group in the early 1990's. I participated. While Mr. Mulroney blames
everyone else, the fact remains that Meech Lake failed because it was the
poorest option of the many ideas presented by Canadians. I voted NO then as
I intend to vote NO on October 10 in Ontario.

Ontario faces the same situation.

We have old bastion political farts like Sheila Copps, a retired Liberal on
the As It Happens radio program and even that old respectable once-leader of
the NDP, Ed Broadbent, also retired and on CTV's morning program, in our
media as 'experts' we should listen to.

What Canadians, not just those in Ontario, need to think about is what
happens on November 11.

Canadian men and women shed blood on the promise that citizens of our world
would never again face manipulation of their vote by anyone in a position of
power. Instead, we are told by old elected and now the comfortably retired
that either the "old system" is fair as it is OR that the new proposal in
Ontario is better so we should just accept that.

NO! Mulroney failed Canadians in Meech Lake by not looking at all of the
options and accepting one that would take the power out of the partisan's
hands and give it back to the people, the voter!

Ontario? They should be voting NO because, by god, there are better options.
Like Meech Lake, 103 so-called 'Assembly citizens" were shoved into rooms
and manipulated into presenting "the best option". It is the 'best option'
for the partisan, not for the voter.

In real democracy, the best option is elected leaders who take the energy of
32 million Canadians to generate ideas to improve our world, not make it
servants of partisans who are just too happy for an opportunity to appoint
their own.