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Campaign Sign Vandalism...Is it worth $1000 & 3 Months in Prison?
Elections Canada Website : Information - Who's running - How to Vote...Everything you need to know...
Yahoo! Thank for your support...It's Official... Jim Bender is the Oxford Rep for The Marijuana Party of Canada
It was tough, right down to the wire, the electoral office was not very helpful about verifying your signatures, but through our persistence and your support, we got in right @ the last minute. Read more on this story
Let's Roll
On December 23, 2003, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Parliament has the constitutional right to prohibit cannabis possession using the criminal law. Therefore, it is no longer relevant to use the courts to try and change this country’s unjust laws. From now on, cannabis activists will have to get their act together on the POLITICAL scene.
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The Great Canadian Flip OffLet’s kick the suits out of Ottawa, as they are thicker than thieves!Sunday June 20th, 2004 Canadians have for some time expected mediocrity in their elected officials’ performance. For 30 years we’ve had successive governments punish us with financial chaos, gross department mismanagement and cover-ups of mass proportion. We’ve been lied to, and cheated on, abused by the people elected to protect and serve our interests, and in the end, we reward them with more time to rape, pillage and plunder. The time to end this brutal attack on the electorates’ intellect is now. The big business parties have all governed parts of Canada, and in some cases the entire federal state. The voice of the people is silenced by the cacophony of legalspeak in Ottawa. The big guys call us a fringe party as they have nothing other to fault us on aside from our existence. This is the gross reflection of repeat politburo type governments who have isolated average Canadians, and disenfranchised others entirely onto the fringe in which we dwell. We’ve all met on common grounds and here it is that we lie in repose, solid in the knowledge that we are correct in standing up for the things in which we believe. And now we fight the great fight of our time and must stand before the electorate, naked and fearless, prepared for the attacks that will come from the right - wing malformists in power. We as people deserve much better than that. We deserve an actual reflection of the population in parliament. We have the ability to pull this together if we stand up and fight. Canada is anticipating the lowest voter turnout in history. We have the ability to do this if we can mobilise the guys in green to all get their butts out and vote! We need legal weed, and we need a representative for the people. I will go to Ottawa and kick ass for the little guys who have been left out of the picture. The time for a revolution in social thinking is now, and a vote for us will mean a vote for change. I am 39 years old, and was raised on a family farm in North Oxford, near Tavistock. For 10 years I’ve operated several businesses in Woodstock, most recently, Lady Godivas’ on Dundas street. I’ve had good success with what I do. My business is fun ! fun! fun! I sell pipes, bongs to everyone.! Doctors, lawyers, even cops! Most people are of the notion that weed is indeed an allright thing here in Oxford. I have 2 sons, Evan 12 and Jayden 9. Jayden suffers from autism and requires much intervention from our community services.I believe he provides the impetus for me to carry on the great fight that I am embroiled in! My partner Angela keeps us all together, and has been a phenomenal guide to me over the years.(no, she never made funny tasting brownies, but if she did, I would have ate them!) My political experience is limited to bad experiences with our elected officials!. I’ve never held elected office, but In handling my sons’ case have negotiated my way through the quagmire of government with great success and came to the realization that the only way to institute change would be to work at it politically and to stand up and fight for what I believed was right, and to apply pressure to the bureacracy to do better. Sometimes you just have to twist arms to get it done. I think most of our past elected officials have been weak and aloof.I would make politics fun! I believe that the primary concerns of Oxford residents is the decline in family farm income, the failure of past big business governments to bring jobs to Oxford,and the general decline of services in Oxford to the elderly, disabled and unemployed. These issues are important to all of us, and in the past our governments have failed us miserably in standing up for these things in Oxford. I intend to do things differently, and my intent is to get things done with maximum efficiency The squeakiest wheel gets the grease, I intend to scream loudly for the people of Oxford. My personal platform includes the right to recall your elected members by way of referendum/by-election. I have had this idea dismissed by all of the big parties as they are obviously afraid of the consequences to them if this were law here. I also believe that Canadas’ senate should be elected, not appointed , as appointments are generally for political reasons and not for reasons of merit. As well, Canadas’ Marijuana trade should be regulated by the government, and taxed as all commodities are in Canada. We have long suffered from the abuses our rights as Canadians to consume what we wish. The boon to our economy would be massive, and the savings in law enforcement could be better put to use cracking down on more serious criminals, like killers and bureaucratic fraudsters. The taxes derived from Marijuana sales in Canada could be used to offset our personal income taxes, which are anti-competitive by nature. A vote for me is a vote for wise management expertise and a great defender of social justice. © 2003-2004 Parti Marijuana // Marijuana Party
For an In Depth Look @ the Platform... Visit the Marijuana Party of Canada Web Site
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