Login / RegisterJamie Scott: Legislating honesty is only way to stop deception in Canadian politics
Our politicians should tell us the truth in all matters, at all times, with no exceptions. The consequences of knowingly lying to the public should be immediate resignation, and I am prepared to provide a pre-signed letter of resignation in the event that I have deceived the public in regards to my official capacity as an MP. This should be a minimum requirement of all members of government, at all levels. In addition, all elected officials should be required to submit to polygraph testing. This is no different that what is required of police officers, prison guards, and now even transit police.
Media blackout or not, there is a duty to investigate the platforms of those who are campaigning in your riding.
I am the only candidate, out of over a thousand registered nationwide, who has a platform to legislate honesty. It matters not what any of the candidates promise you if they are not required to follow through on these promises, or if there are no consequences for deception.
The issues in this election are not health care, education, fighter jets, or new prisons. The issue that matters in every election but is never addressed is deception. If you have no insurance against dishonesty, then the entire democratic process is really just for show. These men and women can promise whatever they want, and your only choice is to believe them and then vote for them, or to not believe them and stay home on election day.
Ultimately, there is only one best choice for the people of Surrey North and that is for us to stop the cycle of community division and come together behind an independent voice, because that is what the people require. Jasbir Sandhu (NDP) and Shinder Purewal (Liberal) should unite the community, and the left-leaning voters, and cease the vote-splitting and community splitting that elections provide. Same goes for Dona Cadman and her constituents, who are forced to support a candidate that they already know has no say in Ottawa, just because they fear letting the Liberals or the NDP in charge of a coalition government. We should return this riding to the independence it had under Chuck Cadman, and then all of these candidates could bring their bills forward as their community wants them written and give them to a member of the House who has already sworn an allegiance to the people and provided a letter of resignation in advance should I violate this oath.
A community can do no better than to give themselves a guarantee against deception, and an independent voice in Parliament once again.
I urge supporters of the NDP and Liberal candidates in Surrey North to unite and vote for a candidate who has spoken out publicly on issues that matter to the left. Conversely, I expect supporters of Dona Cadman to restore pride in their votes by giving them to the candidate who will represent them honestly and can never be compromised.
In fact, rather than merely abandoning key votes in the House, I sincerely urge Dona Cadman to resign her seat altogether, then endorse my campaign directly, and give her long-time followers an independent voice again on May 2.
Jamie Scott is an independent candidate in Surrey North.
Well there goes that Idea.
The citizenry have no more opportunity of seeing this kind of lofty ideal, than we do of tearing down the entire system and forcing it to be rebuilt in our life time.
Good luck with that, someone please pass the popcorn there is an election on.
Harper pleads with Canadians to give him a majority because his parties lack of intergity and honesty will only result in government falling again and another election. The Conservatives promised Canadians accountability and instead give parliament their contempt and despite Harper's refusal to obey the laws he helps create yet he is still up in the polls as voters say he is the only government to be trusted with the economy. Talk about nuts.
Trying to legislate what is truth or not is quite ridiculous, there will be too many loopholes. Someone just has to say, I wasn't lying then and I can't follow through now because there are more important issues on the table.
Also. To say, "the issues in this election are not health care, education, fighter jets, or new prisons," is disregarding every voting Canadian's real concerns.
Legislation is enforced using threats of force. This makes legislation (and the state itself) IMMORAL.
You are proposing to enforce moral behavior with immoral threats. Doesn't work, never has, never will.
Morality and coercive government; oil and water.
It is why accountability and transparency are so important to Democracy without it all you have is their word and that is blind faith something best saved for church not politics.
He has a pre-signed letter of resignation that stipulate the terms
@JGB
I guess politicians will have to think twice before mking promises they can't keep just to win an election.
Face it people, with the main parties we are stuck with really bad chocies of people who don't represent you. They represent the party. Voting indepedent is your only hope of getting someone who is in politics for the right reasons.
It is wise to limit promises and show commitment by being the best you can and that shouldn't be another lie, covering up another lie. People will lose interest and then they will lose out on reality because it is where the truth hangs out.
Federally - to begin with - must permit the payment of monies to Independents and others for votes achieved even if it is one half of one percent.
BC is so corrupt I don't know where to begin.
"He is a despot. Working to destroy the United States from within, nothing else. Bankrupt and armed for war by the same crew that handed him the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm just proving to everyone who thinks it's too late to do anything that we are still free to speak how we wish, and then take it into politics. Next election, together we rise."
This is truth? No. This is conspiracy.
What you have run into here is a candidate who is unafraid to speak the truth, regardless of whether or not you are ready to hear it. I'll still be here when you catch up. For the rest of those people who also KNOW what I am talking about, it would be unacceptable to state anything other than the truth, because the entire purpose of my campaign would become irrelevent.
Because you may believe that the President was born in Hawaii or that a plane struck the Pentagon, am I supposed to keep saying that you are correct until you believe otherwise? I don't think so. I don't give many opinions and rarely state my beliefs. I tell you what is happening in real time, and am the only politician on this continent (so far) that is willing to back up what I say with polygraph testing, micro-facial motion detection, and a forfeiture of salary, pension and position when I start lying to you like the rest.
You (and you are not alone) label it 'conspiracy' as if conspiracy was something that does not exist. Every day in America, hundreds of people are charged with conspiracy of some sort. There is conspiracy, and we shouldn't be afraid to say it.
If the banks who make up the Federal Reserve and IMF have conspired with a President to hyper-inflate and collapse the U.S. dollar and rob the treasury of billions of dollars in bogus bank bailouts, then I don't mind being the first and only politician to say so, but that isn't really the case. There are many beginning to speak out and if you want to criticize me for it or dismiss me as a candidate because of it, it's okay. I'll still be here when the things I'm speaking about become glaringly obvious to you, whenever that time comes. All of us will wait for you.
I've been facing weak criticism like this since I was on the verge of supporting the Iraq war but requested to see some evidence of WMD's. Many like you called me a conspiracy theorist then too. I think that is the label given to people who request evidence of outlandish claims that lead to war.
Curious as to how those who believe that Obama IS working for the best interest of the American people arrived at that conclusion. What is that belief based on?
Jamie Scott
electjamiescott@yahoo.ca
www.jamiescott.ca
Polygraph the politicians.
So this guy Jamie is different ... so what? What is important is that he is different in a good way ... and he is willing to lead the charge and give everything up if he breaks his own rules! That is called INTEGRITY people and very few politicians have this!! The only way to make politicians accountable is IN WRITING ... and that is exactly what this man is suggesting.
Just remember, you are free to vote for whoever you choose of course ... but you are also 100% responsible for your choices and have absolutely no right to complain every time you chose wrong. Start choosing the right people and please stop voting for the liars ... you knew they would lie now didn't you.
Finally, I just want to say I am happy to see that a man like Jamie has the balls to take on the system that treats people like slaves, steals from them and abuses them! Someone has to... and I don't see you naysayers doing it! I hope you win Jamie!
What you are is dangerous. You boast:
"I tell you what is happening in real time, and am the only politician on this continent (so far) that is willing to back up what I say with polygraph testing, micro-facial motion detection, and a forfeiture of salary, pension and position when I start lying to you like the rest."
Welcome to the police state of Scottonia, where machines pass judgment on people. There is a good reason why polygraphs are not allowed in court, yet you, the puffed-up demagogue of truth, would make them instruments of government.
Just for your information, Mr. Scott, fascism is unfashionable.
You deserve no votes. You are a threat to civil liberties.
And if you're gonna whip out addages like "you can't trust a politician" then I'll whip out at you. "If you don't vote you can't complain." In otherwords those who do vote have EVERY right to complain regardless of choice.
Instead let us go back to the comforting days when politicians broke promises and lied with abandon.
This is what the jaded intelligentsia would term "normal" or "business as usual".
If this is the system of government we want then this is the system of government we deserve.
Jamie Scott is delusional. He's a latter-day puritan who wants to become the honest virgin in the political whorehouse. He acts more like a self-imporant messiah than a wannabe MP, and this makes him unfit for office.
I fully support greater honesty in politics, but I am not about to endorse police-state privacy violations to do it. Politics is the art of the possible, not the science of the perfectible. Throughout history, the greatest criminals have been those who sought to impose perfection on captive societies.
Jamie Scott betrays no understanding of the law, civil rights, or political reality. He DOES know how to pander to the masses and prey on their hatred of politicians.
Jamie Scott gives all independent politicians a bad name.
"I sincerely urge Dona Cadman to resign her seat altogether, then endorse my campaign directly"
Go Jamie Scott Go!!
The name suits you. What does anything you said have to do with Jamie Scott's obvious endorsement of police-state excesses? Your empty cheerleading is hardly constructive. You see nothing delusional in Scott's thinking so highly of himself that he EXPECTS others to endorse him? He really does think he's the messiah!
A vote for Jamie Scott is a vote for a whorehouse virgin.
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