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WE ARE THE FUTURE
Herschel Hardin Leadership Campaign
Policy Circular 1 • May 25, 1995 |
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The Canada I envision leads boldy into the future. It is quite different than the defensive, imitative country we have become.
I picture, first of all, a Canada with a vibrant, humanist, popular culture, liberated from commercialism the first Post Propaganda Society of the electronic age.
I picture a Canada of bold and lively economic creativity.
I picture a Canada of democratic mass media.
I picture a Canada with a world leading ecological political economy because, of all countries, I think we have the right imagination for it.
I picture a Canada where people and their communities come before economic devices. To say that really is to say almost everything.
I picture a Canada of exuberant egalitarianism, unleashing creativity.
I picture a Canada where the public sector is given its rightful place as a proud part of our political economy.
I picture a Canada where the New Democratic Party is the natural authority on economic matters and where it leads the way in matters of enterprise, technology, the workplace, and financial management, going well beyond the social safety net.
I picture a Canada in which we have pulled back the Ideology Curtain protecting waste and excess in the private sector, and have created, in that sector, a leaner, less speculative, more productive part of our economy.
I picture a Canada in which we have rebuilt the crown enterprise stream into a dynamic, creative force once again, and where other forms of what I call "socially rooted enterprise" or "community centred enterprise," like co operatives, expand well beyond their current role. |
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