Green Democratic leadership, carrying strong Canadian traditions

Pierre Trudeau brought home and updated Canada's Constitution, and also gave us the essential Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:

Article 2

Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:

(a) freedom of conscience and religion;
(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
(d) freedom of association.

Article 3

Every citizen of Canada has the right to vote in an election of members of the House of Commons or of a legislative assembly and to be qualified for membership therein.


Trudeau also abolished the lash, legalized homosexuality and gambling, and built significant modern monuments in Ottawa and region. I bring up these crucial few of PET's many major accomplishments because the Liberals know leadership; Trudeau even tried to promote a young Brian Mulroney by getting him to cross over and go straight into the Cabinet.


Should the Green Democratic Party seek inclusiveness at the top?

While everyone would agree that the Federal Cabinet should contain as much diversity as expertise and experience allow, some would argue that we should not prejudge where the leader comes from. I will state emphatically that this needs to be seriously considered, for the Liberal's policy of alternating the leadership between francophones and anglophones has been a type of glue for our country. Population and cultural considerations may make us consider an updated version of this unwritten yet steadfast Liberal Party policy in Canada.

For the Green Democratic Party, I will make a suggestion. Let's try and average one anglophone, one francophone, and one other Canadian out of every three party leaders. By other, I mean people we we don't traditionally consider anglophones / francophones, and some that we may have. Native Canadians, Chinese-Canadians, Italian-Canadians, Ethiopian-Canadians, our party must be open to leadership from these and dozens of other widely represented ethnicities in Canada, while at the same time respecting the contributions of Quebec and the French community in provinces such as New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta, by including francophones in the rotation.

Perhaps our leadership rotation can also be unwritten, with everyone already conscious and prepared to shake things up a bit. May the best gal or gent take the reigns, and let us lend our skills and services to build the Canada we all know she can be.