Is Canada really a democracy.

     The word democracy is derived from the Greek word demokratia, meaning "rule by the people."

Federal property worth billions of dollars is being transferred to the Canada Lands Company, a Crown corporation that privatizes publicly-owned land and buildings. The Crown property is being divested through Privy Council Orders-in-Council.
     Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker thought Orders-in-Council were undemocratic because they bypass Parliament.
     A speech Prime Minister John Diefenbaker gave to the Empire Club, Royal York Hotel, October 27 1949:
   "Without an Opposition, discussion would end and be supplanted by virtual dictatorship, for governments prefer to rule by orders-in-council to Parliament, and bureaucrats prefer to be uncontrolled by Parliament or the courts."
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 Public property is being devolved without any Parliamentary oversight, without any debate in the House of Commons, without any referendum.
 Closed door political meetings to talk about the disposition of Crown assets are also undemocratic-see my blog "The City of Kingston and federal buildings."
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  People from across the country are critical of plans by CLC to massively change their their communities:
Save Griffintown!
savecfbrockcliffe
savechilliwack.ca
Save Downsview Park
Save the Garden City Lands
S.A.V.E. Save Senneville as a Village Environment
Save Old Upton Farm ( a song called "Save Old Upton Farm" can be seen on YouTube.)

     In the year 1985 Canadians owned land, buildings and landmarks worth $60 billion dollars. (Read the book "On the Take" by Stevie Cameron---interview with former Minister of Public Works Erik Nielsen.)  By the year 1997, 20 billion dollars worth of Crown property had been sold. (See the document "Let the Future Begin").
     Canada Lands Company sold an 111.68 acre island in Bala, Muskoka, Ontario. The Georgian Bay Islands National Park is federal parkland.
 
Why do Crown corporations operate at arms length from the government, from the people. They are not arms-length from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, our national treasury.
     Canada is not a colony of Great Britain, our Declaration of Independence was called the Statute of Westminster.(1931).
     Who is actually receiving the money that is realized from the sale of my land and buildings.
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Canada is the only country in the G7 that does not have a stockpile of gold. During the 1960's the Royal Canadian Mint held 1,000 tonnes of gold,mostly large gold bars.
The Bank of England has gold worth $315 billion dollars, mostly large gold bars.
 A Canadian named Mark Carney is the Governor of the Bank of England.
This gold can be repatriated, given back to its rightful owners---the People of Canada.