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Raymond Samuels
Party Leader

As 'Cosmopolites', we are commited to supporting public discussions toward the affirmation of the quality-of-living of all Canadians.
Raymond Samuels, our party leader has about 20 years of combined experience in politics, and public service. His professional background in law includes teaching at the college/university-level. He is also a member of the University of Toronto community.

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"Economic indicators used by Canada and other countries continue to generate false readings about our supposed "prosperity". The continued "credibility gap" between these indicators and actual economic performance is profound.

Yet the mass-media and government continue to spread mis-leading information concerning signs of "growth", as the Planet continues to flirt with a path toward an Environmentally precipitated "Holocaust".

We have condemned a growing population of Canadians and other peoples internationally, to poverty, including atrocious homelessness in Canada, and shantytowns abroad; the senseless destruction of the environment, the incidence of diseases, and of overall social despair originating from a continued reliance upon these indicators.

Cosmopolites recognize that we have a social ethical and moral obligation to protect our Planet Earth, our nation, and each other as human beings, from such avoidable catastrophic outcomes.

Indeed, our aspiration as human beings for a high quality-of-survival as a whole, is dependent upon embracing our social ethical and moral obligations."
-- On the Canadian and International Economy

"The political leadership of the federal Tory party under Sir John A. Macdonald, championed Canadian Confederation in 1867. As the current political leadership of the contemporary Progressive Conservative Party contemplates a "Unite with the Right", Cosmopolites will continue to defend the values supported by Sir. John A. Macdonald, in the pursuit of what Jean Talon, the first Intendant of New France referred to as 'Canada as a Great and Powerful State'. For us, 'power' is not in the pursuit of materialistic ambition that drives wars, but is, instead, in fostering a synergistic and nurturing cross-cultural society. To facilitate such a society, we support governance based upon commitments to timeless social ethics." -- On political efforts to "Unite the Right".

The Canadian economic system is repressively imprisoning the human condition, into 'wage slavery', and accompanying "market forces".

The "market forces" have been divested from taking consideration of social and environmental costs.

Cosmopolites believe that the Canadian economic system should service the pursuit of a high quality of human survival, for "all Canadians".
-- On Economic Policy and Social Justice

"As Cosmopolites, we are Canadians who seek to defend, and also seek to operate consistent with our values, and the overall sovereignty of Canada as a prospective progressive model society for social justice, cross-cultural community environmental protections and peace; in an international community of nations." -- On Cosmopolites Progressive National Vision

"The Liberal Party of Canada has taken Canada from the no. 1 ranking in the United Nations Quality-of-Life index, into a precipitous decline.

Federal Liberals have presided over the decline of Canada's valued social programmes, the universal public healthcare system, the environment, the social fabric of Canadian cities, public health, and overall Canadian sovereignty in the ability of government to support the quality-of-living of Canadians.

Our Liberal friends vaunt the selling of our birthright as Canadians. Our birthright, had been successfully defended by previous Canadian governments.

Canadians can expect a worsening of quality-of-living in Canada, as long as Canada is left under the continued auspices of prevailing apparent negligent Liberal mis-direction of social, environmental, and economic policy.

Cosmopolites are inspired by the vision of what former Prime Minister John Difenbaker referred to as a 'New National Policy'. Cosmopolite specifically supports a progressive 'National Green Industrial Plan'.

This 'National Green Industrial Plan' envisions rescuing the decline of our great cities, specifically, and our nation in general; from social, environmental, and economic decline, due to the very forces which have caused profound socio-economic and other despair in America.

We support an approach to public policy in which an emphasis on social justice, and the quality-of-living of Canadians, must always be axiomatic; based upon an inviolable spiritual covenant with Canadians.

Cosmopolites recognize that defending the sovereignty of Canada as a strong and participatory democracy, is vitally required, in order to support social justice, in affirmation of the quality-of-living of Canadians.

We invite all Canadians to support our socially progressive Cause in defence of the Canadian Dream."
-- Further On the Cosmopolitan National Progressive Alternative

"The so-called nationalists, in Québec present their agenda for a separate Quebec based not substantively upon verifiable facts, but instead upon mythology. Their political agenda does not serve the interests of "nationhood" in Quebec, but instead serves a racialist elite. These so-called 'nationalists' are really just the extremists of the cadre of 'provincialists', (that have tried to undermine Canada since Confederation in 1867), and who in their apparent provincialism, resort to the politics of divide and rule. Indeed, descendants of French migrants who settled this great Land were among to first to refer to themselves as 'Canadians'. With our aboriginal compatriots and other migrants, we came together as a new Canadian nationality. We will not sell our birthright and our ancestry as Canadians, based on the revisionist history of Québec by my separatists friends. The French identity in Canada extended itself from sea to sea, as Canada, (well beyond the present-day 'Province of Québec'), and was never circumscribed under a "Quebec Nationality". It is well-corroborated in political historical annals, that notions of a "Quebec Nationality" were contrived by the racialist motivations of an elite. This so-called "Quebec Nationality" is based upon denying our essential Canadian identity. Ah oui... Canada is our nation, Quebec is a province of that nation, as other provinces. As champions for that nation, we are not "Quebec sovereigntists" but instead 'Canadian sovereigntists'. However, Quebec is special to the extent that it is is the place of the genesis of the Canadian nation. We as Cosmopolites seek to defend the French identity in Canada in equal esteem with other cultural heritages in the nation-building of a cosmopolitan society." -- On Québec Separatism and the Bloc Québecois

"A democracy must be measured, on its provision of rights and opportunities to affirm the quality-of-life of all its citizens in an equitable manner, without exception. On its championing of the human rights of Canadians of all social cultural backgrounds, we affirm our conviction in the affirmation of Canada as a cosmopolitan democracy.

We will not be swayed by the instilling of a climate of fear, that attempts to undermine a commitment to fundamental social ethical convictions of a "Just Society".

The Canadian Constitution, inclusive of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides important starting points for even further enhancement of our human rights, in a manner that can actively support the affirmation of the quality-of-living of all Canadians. The timeless moral commitments, to the general principles of social ethics, that are recognized by the Canadian Constitution are not for sale, as a mean to attract commercial development."
-- On the Canadian Constitution and Democracy

"Canadian leadership in international affairs, as noted by former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, has significantly declined. Cosmopolites support a revitalization of the leadership for Canada in international affairs, that was inspired by former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, who had won a Nobel Peace Prize. Cosmopolitan also recognize that Canada can provide such leadership as it had done in the past, by striving to support the fruition of a model progressive society -- the attainment of which has been undermined by the apparent negligence by our federal Liberal friends. From international poverty, to international conflicts including on-going regional wars, Canada can best provide vital and timely independent leadership, as a fully sovereign nation." -- On Canadian political leadership in International Affairs.

"The power is within us as human beings, to deal with Canadian and world poverty, and with critical environmental problems. We can express this power by embracing the eternal light of being, over the forces of senseless exploitation and mammon"
-- On redressing Canadian and global issues concerning poverty and the environmental protection.

"Having "material-financial wealth", in an essentially destroyed environment, that undermines both personal and public health, is a condition of abject poverty. A Cosmopolitan government, would support the protection and advancement of health, that is linked to the pursuit of a high quality-of-survival for all Canadians, fully inclusive of recent immigrants and aboriginal peoples across Canada. Canada can commit itself to a truly progressive model to support the quality-of-living for all human beings, as a fundamental spiritual covenant of government. We believe that with the political will, this target is fully achievable. Indeed, the pursuit of a high quality-of-survival, for all citizen-participants of society , should be the axiom of all economic public policies in an enlightened democracy." -- On the public policy priorities of a Cosmopolitan Government.

Please note: You are invited to e-mail the political party leader at: leadership@agoracosmopolite.com. Cosmopolitan is a grassroots oriented quality-of-living oriented political party.

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