Thursday, December 4, 2008

Canadians' blood should be running a little cold today. Economic consideration trumped democracy. I suppose this should not be too surprising, given our collective disengagement with our political process, and given that notions of citizenship, and the attendant rights and responsibilities, seem to have been reduced to residing and consuming in Canada.

On November 5th, the Senate of the Republic of Argentina became
the first national parliament to adopt a resolution unconditionally
calling for the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary
Assembly (UNPA), an advisory body that would review the activities of
the UN and give citizens for the first time direct representation at
the global level.