Monthly Archive for February, 2007

The David Suzuki foundation has launched a tour and website called “If you were Prime Minister…” Tour, in which you write exactly that, and it gets mailed to the heads of the four main political parties in Canada, Con, Lib, NDP and Bloc.

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/tour/vote.asp

Here’s my letter:

Name: Andy Collier

City: Charlottetown, PE

If I were Prime Minister…

I would end short term solutions that look ahead only the next 4-8 years (same length as political most terms…) and work towards setting up goals that all parties can embrace and inherit in the case of government changes, that look ahead generations and even centuries in time.

Sustainability needs to be at the forefront of our agendas. Not just in terms of the environment and pollution, but also in our socio-economic areas as well. We need health care and education systems that work and are adaptable to our needs and can change with advancements in knowledge and technology.

We need sustainability in our foreign relations, we need to make connections and relations that foster good will and cooperation in the long term.

We definitely need to be more sustainable with our resources, especially our basic resources like wood, water and even rock. We need to protect our national natural treasures like the Niagara Escarpment and BC rain forests.

We need to protect out farmers and fishermen with practical and sustainable regulations that foster conservation. At the same time we need to be protective of our waters and stop foreign over fishing, as well as try to guide other countries towards conservation as well.

We have the money, people, resources and knowledge to become an example of a truly sustainable, innovative, advanced country and culture in the world, we need someone to inspire us to become that dream. If I were Prime Minister, that would be my goal.