Canada Day 2020
The Need to Build Canada on the New Historical Basis
- Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist) -
Canada Day 2020 marks the 153rd anniversary of
Confederation established by the Royal
Proclamation of 1867. Today, Canadians face the
necessity to enact a new Constitution to replace
the one used to found Canada in the conditions
that prevailed in 1867. The need to renew the
democracy and to renew the nation is a historical
challenge which must be accomplished in order for
Canada to meet the needs of its people and
contribute the same to the peoples of the world. A
modern constitution must abolish the Royal
Prerogative on which the present Constitution is
based. It must vest sovereignty in the people and
get rid of the police powers which maintain
privileges in lieu of rights.
A modern constitution for Canada is needed to end
the colonial injustice and old arrangements
suffocating the Indigenous peoples. Such a
constitution must implement the principle of
nation-to-nation relations. If the federation is
to be free and equal, it must recognize Quebec's
right to self-determination.
A modern constitution recognizes the rights of
all human persons by virtue of being human. It
must end all notions of superior and inferior
cultures rooted in the concept of founding nations
and racist divisions by recognizing that citizens
and residents have rights by virtue of being
human. It must provide that these rights are
guaranteed with enabling legislation.
A modern constitution must introduce a political
process that guarantees equal membership in the
body politic and forms of governance where members
of the polity have a say and control on all
decisions which affect their lives and the
practical means to hold to account those in
government.
The renewal of the political process is required
so that citizens and residents can directly decide
the matters that concern them and participate in
solving problems and take up in earnest the
humanizing of the social and natural environment.
A modern Canada and a modern constitution are
needed to stop the nation-wrecking of those who
have submitted the country to the decision-making
power and empire-building of foreign powers and
financial interests, supranational trade
arrangements and U.S.-led military alliances and
wars. Canada needs independence so Canadians can
develop modern human-centred social relations
among themselves and with all humanity.
Canada also needs an anti-war government that
makes Canada a zone for peace and demands that
problems in international relations are solved
without violence and war.
History calls on the peoples of Canada and Quebec
and the Indigenous peoples to establish modern
arrangements among themselves based on a free and
equal union of sovereign entities. The challenges
are great but the present conditions beckon us all
to rise to the task to build a bright future where
the rights of all are guaranteed.
Let the working class constitute the nation and
vest sovereignty in the people with a modern
constitution that builds Canada on the new
historical basis!
All Out to Build the
New!
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 24 - July 4, 2020
Article Link:
Canada Day 2020: The Need to Build Canada on the New Historical Basis - Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist)
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