Re: [WDDM] Great Canadian Wish List

["Bruce Eggum" <bruceeggum(at)gmail.com>]

Good effort Mirek. This shows the public does not understand the value and need of Initiative and [binding] Referendum. This is our purpose at WDDM, to explain and provide information on I&R. I would like to suggest that the present site fails to do that. We have strong supporting mechanism with WIKI and Forum, however we have no "selling" page.

I suggest we have an opening page with immediate explanation and news items on I&R use, development of I&R and the necessity of I&R for people to maintain their Liberty and other Rights. Robo cops, tapped phones, personal information used against us, we must take responsibility! To do so we must have the power to control our governments or we are simply Serfs -- yes sah, no sah, what cha want me to do sah?  We must sell I&R to the people, so they will make the time to implement it or we will be Serf's forever.
Bruce

On 7/1/07, M. Kolar wrote:

More than a month ago I wrote here about the Great Canadian Wish List (GCWL).
Since then I introduced there the wish (initiative) to introduce Direct
Democracy in Canada.

The GCWL has closed today. The results are here:
http://www.cbc.ca/wish/2007/07/the_top_30_wishes.html

Total number of participants in this experiment was 19,865.

My wish to introduce Direct Democracy in Canada got 29 supporters (including
myself), i.e., only about 0.15% of all the participants were interested in
Direct Democracy.
However, the whole thing was driven by the campaign to ban abortion in Canada,
and countered by the progressives' drive to keep abortion a matter of choice.
These two groups tried to mobilize as many like-minded people as possible, many
of whom, I suspect, have not paid any attention to other wishes, so it is not
easy how many people really evaluated or even took note of the minor wishes
like mine.

Altogether, 3204 wishes (initiatives) were made, some frivolous, but many other
were thoughtful and very reasonable, and brought many new interesting ideas how
to deal with public and environmental matters.

There were reported attempts of cheating and software problems that enabled it.
Also there was no way to make sure that only Canadians participated in GCWL.
Suspicions were voiced that many Americans participated in the battle to ban
abortion.

Again, without an official Internet registry of voters in a given jurisdiction
(legalization of digital signatures), it is very difficult to say how
meaningful any Internet voting results really are.

Mirek

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