Happy new year?
It is traditional to wish everyone a happy new year on new years eve. It is also traditional to discuss the good and bad things from the past year, and our hopes for the future. As the year ends I find I'm thinking about some disturbing things. On December 4'th we saw the federal House of Commons prorogue. This was a sneaky procedural trick used by the prime minister in order to avoid (or delay) a coalition replacing his government. This event was the period in my mind to a sentence of events I had been observing. The fact that a massive number of Canadians thought that this procedural trick was appropriate reminded me of just how messed up we are as Canadians. Beyond Canada, similar trends around the world demonstrate how our lack of understanding of our current situation appears to make us incapable of making positive changes towards the future. While there are many issues I wish to discuss, our governments are a critical decision making body. We need to understand how