Last Updated: April 7, 2012 12:00am
Not many people know this.
Last Sunday the Global Greens Congress voted unanimously in favour of a single world government. Fittingly, it was April 1 — April Fool's Day.
I know, I know, it's only the Global Greens, but they do claim to represent all Green political parties on the planet. They also have a strong Canadian connection.
Elizabeth May's own Green Party of Canada (GPC) is an affiliate. The Green Party in B.C. actively raised funds to support the meeting and helped delegates attend the four-day festival of earnest ear bashing in Dakar, Senegal.
Here is the full text of the motion that was heartily approved by all delegates:
"The Global Greens Congress reaffirms its support of the creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) as a parliamentary body within the UN system that is complementary to the UN General Assembly. As a first step it should be composed of representatives of national parliaments but ultimately it should become a body that is directly elected by the world's citizens. As representation of the world's citizens, we believe that a UNPA, among other things, should be involved in all important intergovernmental treaty negotiations."
So there you have it.
Greens with a dream to see the creation of a single world government in which Canada would always be out voted by China, India or any religious bloc.
Put simply, Canadians would be subject in part to a government it could never dismiss.
Voting so enthusiastically to absolve our national sovereignty in favour of some world parliamentary body clearly is not something to be taken lightly.
Canada had three officially registered delegates in Dakar. All endorsed the motion highlighted above and they were led by Jean Cloutier, chairperson for the Quebec Wing of Green Party of Canada. The other two were Global Young Greens Tanya Gutmanis and Scott Baker.
On the floor of the congress Canada was also well represented. Jim Harris, former leader of the GPC was a guest speaker and Johan Hamels, former GPC executive director, served as plenary session chairperson.
Who knows how it will work out? It's not as if there isn't any existing model to gauge just how disparate nations act when they form a union for the perceived common good.
Like the European Union. That is certainly one peachy keen gathering of like-minded countries and economies.
There is a European Parliament and a European Court of Justice. There is a common currency and a seemingly bottomless pit of money to spread around provided by the hard working taxpayers of, um, Germany.
Just the ticket for economic basket cases like Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain to cling to as they spiral into the financial abyss.
Perhaps the Greens think by using the auspices of the United Nations things will work out. Just like they did, say, in Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia and Angola, to name just a few from a very long list of abject UN political failures.
As somebody who has personally seen the UN operate in full interventionist mode, from Mozambique to Cambodia, and a few points in between, the belief that it can do anything other than drain the treasury of contributing nations must represent the triumph of hope over geo-political experience.
Still, it's not just Canadian Greens excited by the prospect of one world government. Australian Green Senator Bob Brown believes evil global corporations have too much sway at the international level.
He says they should be counterbalanced by the hoped for "global parliament" to deal with genuinely global issues and that "makes sure that the basic needs of every citizen of the world" can be met.
"Every citizen should have an equal say on global matters," Senator Brown suggested to his Global Green colleagues. "One person, one vote, one value."
Coming soon to a (Green tinted) ballot box near you.
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