Canada was envisioned as a country, where tradition, spirituality and communitarian living, would foster an alternative society and sovereign nation in North America. The life nourishing and beauty of Canada's dynamic and vast natural landscape have been vital to the evolving Canadian identity.

Canada in the World

The well renowned quality-of-living of Canada, compared to that of other societies has critically relied on an old monarchist tory political recognition (nothing to do with the current so-called 'Conservative Party of Canada' creation, which is not authentically "tory") which attested to the need to "conserve" Canada's social fabric and the natural landscape. However, our well renowned social programmes, and environment are being destroyed by the influence of anti-environmental-oriented materialistic values. These very materialistic values had been feared by Canada's multi-cultural founders who had fled the American Revolution into Canada. These "tory"-inspired multi-cultural founders embraced "Old World" values, shared by "les Canadiens" (an identity which embraced, in part, diverse aboriginal cultures indigenous to the St. Lawrence River Valley area). These multi-cultural founders foresaw the threat to Canada that was posed by what these "cosmopolitan tories" perceived to be essentially as "the spectre of Americanization".

As Cosmopolites, we seek to re-galvanize Canada's leadership in the world, that had been championed by former Prime Minister Lester Pearson who had won the Nobel Peace Prize; and also by former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Indeed, former Prime Minister Trudeau sought a Canada which would be a "mentor" nation-state, or 'international role model' for the world toward what he also referred to as the goal of the fostering of Canada as a socially progressive "Just Society".

Our Canadian Cosmopolitanism inspires us to envision the seeking of Canadian leadership in the world, based in part, upon championing rescue from the systematic destruction of global human life-sustaining ecosystems. We seek in this regard to further defend, in part, the political legacy of Prime Minister Trudeau, and other Prime Ministers before him, who sought a national vision of Canada as a 'mentor' or progressive role model. As Cosmopolites, we seek to champion progressive policies which simultaneously protect our environment; and the linked social fabric, for the rest of the world, for ourselves and posterity.

Humanity, Nature and Spirituality

Our Canadian Cosmopolitanism, views nature to be spiritually vital to our very humanity, as Canadians. Nature in general is both vital to the 'humanity' of people spiritually, and to nourishing all life on the planet Earth.

As Cosmopolites, we appreciate the idea that the beauty of nature, and its vital life-nourishing support, vitally reinforce the humanity of Canadian society, and other societies internationally. It is statistically verifiable that, cities, regions, and countries which have experienced relatively higher levels of destruction to their natural environment, also display more "social dysfunctionalities". Such dysfunctionalities include crime, associated with the de-humanizing social psychological effects of a harshening environment on human inter-personal dynamics. On-going "North American Free Trade" and "economic globalization" driven government policies have conspired to reinforce an austere harsh milieu of social malaise and de-spiritualizing alienation. The destruction of the environment destroys the very milieu that sustains the overall quality of human survival. The spiritual identity of our humanity, is being subverted by policies which promote the destruction of our environment. Under such policies, the prospects for the accessing of "healthy lifestyles" for all human beings based upon maintaining an association with nature, is being cast aside in favour of de-humanizing policies. On-going government policies in Canada, and internationally under "free trade" and "Economic Globalization", broadly conspire to subvert the behavioural contexts of human inter-personal relationships to that of materialistic barbarians in an impovrished "concrete jungle", which create conditions for crime and 'terrorism'.

As Cosmopolites, we therefore embrace not only the comprehensive protection of natural ecosystems in general; but also corresponding protection of natural 'green spaces' i.e. parks and "urban conservation areas" in cities, toward the development of "healthy communities". As Cosmopolites we deplore the extent to which multiple levels of government have allowed the systematic destruction of the quality-of-living in Toronto, for example, which used to be known as the "City that Works", "People City", and a "model city for the twenty-first century".

Environmental destruction, domestic crime, and
'terrorism'

The systematic destruction of the environment, creates a greater scarcity of perceived "resources" in the market-driven economy, which in turns fosters wars, urban crime, and 'terrorism' as a violent reaction to conditions which have been perceived to be causing apparent deprivation.

The development of government policies which lessen overall economic dependency of pollution causing non-renewable energy sources, also lessens the historical premeditation of wars that are precipitated by scarce access to non-renewable energy resources. By developing such policies, we will support the natural diminishing of crime and natural spontaneous erradication of 'terrorism', which becomes more of a threat with short-sighted materialistic driven environmental destruction.

As Cosmopolites, we embrace the general sense of spirituality of living and expression that was held by the multi-cultural founders of Canada. This sense of 'spirituality' was linked with the corresponding values for the nurturing of a social fabric which would produce a Canadian 'community', that pursued more than crass 'materialism'.

Beyond "Sustainable Development"

Our Canadian Cosmopolitanism views nature, not simply to be commodified for either 'unsustainable'; or a comparative so-called 'sustainable development' in association with levels of commercial exploitation. "Sustainable development" is a positive "conceptual start" to conceiving environmental protection in general. However, the concept of "sustainable development" is still based upon a basic paradigm of commercial exploitation, that is "more restrained". It could therefore be viewed as being operationally an "unsustainable concept", in an environment driven by hostile market competition of "winners" and "losers" (Please see Recommended Readings: 'Quantuum Economics: Wage Slavery or the Quality-of-Life? Choices in the "New Economy"', ISBN: 1894839609. 2003, 2004.) In economic milieu, where the "rules of the game", are "sink" (that is "go bankrupt") or "swim", in the drive for maximized short-term profit, the proposition of "sustainable development" could be viewed to be an "unrealistic proposal".

Our Canadian Cosmopolitanism, embraces nature as sacred, in the extent to which nature sustains the overall vitality and well-being of society, and rejuvenated economic paradigm which fully integrates social and environmental costs, ignored by current economic performance indices.

Multi-Faith Values and Protecting the Earth

The first book of Moses called 'Genesis' states that:

"In the beginning G-d created the heaven and the earth."

Other world religions have evolved as part of the multicultural-orientation of Canadian society, have similar expressions.

In the book entitled 'Oneness: Great Principles Shared by All Religions' by Jeffrey Moses, Ethiopian African wisdom has been quoted to express that "We do not see G-d, but all we see are His works."

Judaism expresses that "It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world in his wisdom and by his understanding stretched out the heavens."

Confucianism expresses that "All things originate from heaven."

The forces of "mammon" conceive of the 'natural landscape' of Canada as something to be owned, and commercially exploited (as rapidly as technologically feasible), and degraded.

As Cosmopolites, we appreciate the dynamism of the natural environment of Canada as having intrinsic value in itself, separate from any commercial calculations. Conceptually, this is the key to protecting our environment beyond sustainable "commercial" development and a corresponding scope of "mammon".

A Healthy Environment as a Canadian "Birth-right"

As Canadians, we are entitled to the protection of our environment as our "Birth-right".

As Cosmopolites, we therefore affirm that government in Canada therefore has a "sacred covenant" to protect this "Birth-right" of all Canadians.

Protecting a vital natural heritage for all Canadians

Our Canadian cosmopolitanism embraces the protection of our natural heritage that affirms our interconnected spiritual and communal vitality of Canadians.

Apparent religious-based political hypocrisy

Many human agents who continue to proselytize that G-d created the "heaven and the earth", also continue, in the name of profit, to legitimate essential desecrations to the 'creations of G-d'.

Could this disjoint between what is proselytized and what is being done, be regarded as basic religious hypocrisy?

The key to critically evaluating this question, could very well be encapsulated with Matthew 6:24 of the Christian Bible.

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve G-d and mammon."

Canadian Environmental Sovereignty: Beyond so-called "Free Trade"

Before the free trade regime introduced by the former government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney government during the mid-1980's, Canada could pursue relatively nurturing social and environmental policies. Such a comparatively progressive milieu of policy-making had made Canada the no. 1 ranked in quality-of-living in the world, according to the United Nations Human Development Index. The current "free trade" regime has compromised the ability of government policy-makers to make sovereign decisions on behalf of the Canadians, in vital environmental regulatory and other areas. The current "free trade" regime is based around a context that promotes materialism in a survival of the fittest society associated with a context of 'mammon'. This is contrary to the inspired collective pursuit of a Canadian Dream associated with the joint spiritual and communal essence of the genesis of Canada, critically inspired by nature.

Our Canadian Cosmopolitanism appreciates the need for the protection of the Canadian sovereignty that affirm the ability of government to be able to freely create laws in support of the development of Canada as an international and as a societal "role model" of quality-of-living (associated with the vital protection of Canada's environment and social fabric).

Protecting Canada from "Environmental Desecration"

The on-going systematized destruction of a fertile natural paradise in Canada and internationally is motivated by an apparent short-sighted materialistic pursuit of "mammon" by human agents. This systematized destruction could be viewed to be a form of 'desecration' against nature, as a life-giving and life-nourishing, and henceforth sacred evolved creation.