22 Apr 2022
The Pirate Party of Canada will abolish university tuition fees. Studies have shown that education is directly linked to our GDPSource, and as we approach peak jobs due to automation, society must retool itself for life after convenience and factory workers. Furthermore, our government can afford to spent billions in fighter planes, with a little bit of readjustment of priority, few billions could be set aside to invest in post-secondary education to help make us a world leader in knowledge and skill based economy.
22 Apr 2022
Reform of the Senate is necessary to ensure the Senate remains relevant and effective as an expert body, and acts as a proper check on the activities of the Commons. However the scope, scale and specifics of any reform are something that needs to be discussed at length and in public. We all have a stake in the future shape of of our democracy.
We intend to start a national discussion about the shape of the Senate and how it can be improved without damaging the work that the Senate does.
Too many parties say “we will reform senate” but offer no solutions and never actually reform the body. We strongly desire a change, but want to make sure that the change is right. Town halls and various meetings will inform the best course of action.
22 Apr 2022
The delivery of services to government is littered with stories of companies exceeding budgets and delivering late. We will implement penalties for significant performance failures for government suppliers. If a company fails to deliver a government within 25% of budget or 25% of the deadline then that company (its parent organisations and subsidiaries) would be banned from providing services or products to the government for at least 2 years.
22 Apr 2022
An independent audit of public sector spending and processes should be carried out annually, including a review of spending to identify where spending reductions or greater returns are possible without reducing the overall effectiveness of the public sector.
22 Apr 2022
To improve the quality of legislation we wish to see a much higher level of prelegislative scrutiny for every bill before parliament.
We would investigate measures intended to reduce the power of party leaders and front-benchers in parliament.
We would investigate the possibility of permanent elected legislative committees for each government department in the Commons rather than ad hoc public bill committees. There are a number of approaches that could work in this area and we would aim to trial a number of options to decide which is likely to be the most effective.
We would implement an evidence-taking stage for all bills in addition to pre-legislative scrutiny. We would limit the use rules to restrict debate in the Commons to cases of actual abuse of the rules of the House. We would roll out post-legislative scrutiny on all important policy-changing bills before new bills on the same subject are considered.
We would require the maintenance of a register of lobbyists as well as a record of all meetings between lobbyists and legislators or government officials.
