Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 01:43 AM - Economy
Our plan to repay the national debt in 25 years is also important to the people of York Simcoe because our debt takes $6,000 from each family’s pocket every year to maintain.
The CHP would repay our national debt in the same way a homeowner pays down their mortgage. Our debt is approx. $600 billion. Our present federal plan is to pay $3 billion per year which would take us about 125 years to repay. We have mortgaged our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. This is stealing from them! Our historic heritage has been to provide for our children not leave them indentured.
Using the same money that other parties are using to buy your vote, we would apply $4 billion dollars a month… every month… on the national debt. This would leave our children federally debt free in 25-30 years depending on the interest rates.
How much brighter future would your children have, if they didn’t have to carry the debt burden, which we created, through their entire adult lives?
The CHP is looking out for future Canadians rather than sabotaging their future. Better solutions do begin at the Christian Heritage Party.
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Saturday, September 27, 2008, 02:26 AM - Health Care
What role will the private sector play in the publicly funded health care system of your government?
The CHP would allow more private delivery systems. Restricting delivery to public facilities is only a strategy to protect the turf of public service unions. But more private initiative will increase innovation—both saving money and improving service. Even so, public funding must remain -- and be enhanced. The Liberals cut it from 50% to 14%; it has never been restored. It should be restored to 25%.
In addition, we should not allow ourselves to be terrified about so-called "two-tiered" health care: virtually every social democratic government in Europe already has two-tiered health care. It simply means letting private competition improve delivery and reduce costs, while retaining a single-payer insurance concept (the way the Canadian system was originally adopted) to ensure universal access.
Currently, many private healthcare services are already available. If your doctor orders an ultrasound for you, you may be sent to a private clinic, when you are sent for blood work, it is frequently a private clinic. The Shouldice Hernia Clinic in Toronto is a good example of a private clinic paid for by the government health plan. All you do is provide your health card.
The real issue is universal access, with a single government payer. We are not advocating an American-type insurance system—simply for the Canadian system to work as originally intended.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 09:09 PM - Justice
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
Ron Gray on Mike Duffy Live.... Tonight
Tonight, leader of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada, Ron Gray, will be appearing on Mike Duffy Live, CTV Newsnet. (5 p.m. PDT, 8 p.m. EDT, 9 p.m. ADT)
Ron will discuss the legal injunction which the Christian Heritage Party is bringing to halt the Leaders' Debates.
This injunction is because of a violation of both the Canada Elections Act and the Broadcasting Act.
Make sure you tune in for this historic interview.
It can be watched online at http://watch.ctv.ca/news/mike-duffy-liv ... y-sept-23/
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 05:26 PM - Justice
The CHP has filed an injunction in federal court to stop the Leaders' Debate because it violates the Canada Elections Act and the Broadcasting Act.
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Ron Gray - Leader of the Christian Heritage Party
CHP NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release
Sept. 23, 2008
CHP sues to open leaders' TV debates to all
CALGARY, Sept. 22, 2008 (CHPNews) - The sixth-largest of Canada's federal political parties is going to court to ask that all registered parties be included in the television debates next month.
There are 18 registered federal parties and one eligible for registration.
The Christian Heritage Party applied to be included in the Leaders' Debates Sept 11, after the Green Party had been added to the roster. The consortium of broadcasters organizing the debates turned down the CHP's request Sept. 16, giving no reason.
In Ontario on a campaign tour, CHP leader Ron Gray said today that his party has been asking for ten years for changes to the Elections Act to give first consideration to the right of voters to be provided with adequate information about all options available to them; the Act as written by Parliament focuses instead on the interests of the major parties.
"A democracy requires an informed electorate," Gray says. "That means they must know about the philosophies and policies of all the parties. Limiting their information to only the biggest four or five impairs the democratic process."
The CHP noted that the Supreme Court of Canada's 2003 Figueroa decision, written by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, stresses the important role smaller parties play an in the democratic process, even if they cannot offer what she called "a government option", by raising issues the major parties may not want to discuss.
"That certainly applies to the CHP," Gray noted. "Our platform includes many issues the big parties would rather avoid, as well as fresh and innovative proposals on problems they're still debating in old terms."
The Chief Justice, in the Figueroa decision, also stressed the right of candidates to make their policies known, and the citizens' need to have adequate access to information-points the CHP has been stressing for ten years as a member of the Chief Electoral Officer's Advisory Committee of Political Parties.
"It's also an issue that when polls are taken, the results are unreliable if pollsters only ask about the three or four biggest parties. Later, most voters will only know about the four biggest national parties and one regional party. We had a survey done in 1996 which showed that three-quarters of the public have never been told about other parties with different policies.
"One way that hurts democracy is that, the people who might support those policies stay home ands don't vote, because they don't know there's any party that represents them."
The CHP's brief in federal court states that if the five radio and television networks give free time to only the largest parties, that free time becomes a campaign donation. Under the revisions made to the Elections Act in Bill C-24 three years ago, donations to political parties by corporations are illegal.
The CHP leader said the party's legal counsel has advised him that a preferential assignment of free air time to the bigger parties violates provisions in both the Elections Act and the Broadcasting Act.
"Two hours of free time, coast-to-coast, is a pretty big campaign contribution," Gray said. "For comparison purposes, consider this: 30 seconds on CTV's prime-time program The Amazing Race costs $63,000.
"And the broadcasters are already aware of the problem," he added. "When we requested a copy of a recorded one-minute free-time television message at the CBC, the producer told us they would have to remove the closed captioning, because that might be construed as a campaign donation.
"If the networks worry that one minute of closed captioning is a campaign donation, what do they think two hours of prime time on three networks is?
"If they include all parties, it's news coverage," explained Gray. "But if they favour only some parties and not others, it's a gift-in-kind worth millions of dollars."
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Monday, September 22, 2008, 05:10 PM - Infrastructure
Infrastructure
York Simcoe, like much of Canada, has a sadly deteriorated infrastructure. Municipal governments have their hands tied because they are limited as to how they can raise funds. This prevents them from implementing improvements within our communities.
The Municipal Council is closer to the people in our communities, closer to the issues in our communities therefore they know what is really needed in each community.
In order to help municipalities with infrastructure improvement, the CHP would order the Bank of Canada to issue interest free loans to provinces and municipalities to improve their infrastructure. As the loan is repaid the Government of Canada currency, which had been issued by way of loan, is withdrawn from circulation thus ensuring that it is non-inflationary.
Currency issued by the Bank of Canada is legal within our Charter and is better for our citizens than paying interest for loans to a chartered bank.
This strategy was used at the end of WW2 when there were 2 million Canadian soldiers returning…. without employment and launched the biggest building boom in Canadian history.
This plan would provide employment within a town, it would provide services which meet the specific needs of each community, and would improve our infrastructure.
Better solutions begin at www.chp.ca
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Thursday, September 18, 2008, 11:45 AM - Taxes
Today is a good day to talk retirement! Over the next few years we will see a major shift in our demographics. We will enter a time where there are more people retired than in the workforce.
Had our governments in the past put away the money we had contributed to our Canada Pension Plan then we would feel quite comfortable about our future…. But they haven’t put our money away. They spent it! Flush with cash, they’ve paid for many programs which have caused us to shake our heads in disgust.
But the time has come to pay the piper! As we enter this period of large demographic shift, our pensions are a liability to the government… a debt!
We have not only saddled our children with a massive debt which, at the present rate of repayment, will take about 125 years to repay, we have also put on their backs the cost of paying for our retirement.
The CHP would implement a Personal Income Security Account.
A Personal Income Security Account would provide a portable investment portfolio, vested in the name of each worker, for health, employment and retirement income. This plan was proposed for Canada in 1980 by a Christian politician, Dr. Robert N. Thomson. It was rejected by Parliament, but a few years later it was adopted by Chile. Chilean workers at that time were given the option of continuing on the tax-funded pension plan, or going on the new investment plan. Those who chose the investment plan are now retiring wealthy -- and Chile has become an economic powerhouse in Latin America because of the pools of investment created.
Better Solutions begin at www.chp.ca
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