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Bill: Decentralization Act
Details
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2603
Description[?]:
| To again let the people of provinces decide their provinces laws. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Food safety policy.
Old value:: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Current: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Proposed: Local governments determine food safety standards.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Licensing of food sales.
Old value:: Food may be sold by licensed vendors only, and shelf lives of foods are enforced.
Current: Anyone may sell food, but shelf lives of foods are enforced.
Proposed: The licensing of food sale is left for local governments to decide.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: The use of cannabis is legal.
Current: The use of cannabis is legal.
Proposed: Recreational drug use is regulated by local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:08:59, July 06, 2008 CET | From | National Movement for Civic Democracy | To | Debating the Decentralization Act |
| Message | we would like to completely outlaw drug use, but this is good for now. |
| Date | 00:25:41, July 07, 2008 CET | From | Sons of Liberty | To | Debating the Decentralization Act |
| Message | Though generally in favor of the first two articles, we feel the third will allow tyranny over the individual. |
| Date | 01:16:52, July 07, 2008 CET | From | Party | To | Debating the Decentralization Act |
| Message | Why? You say you believe in freedom and liberty yet you go against it whenever it suits you. If the people of provinces happen to not want drugs to be allowed thats THEIR business, not the federal goverments. And secondly, if the federal government was to take a stance on drugs, I would they would take the right one, and make them illegal, drugs not only destroy the person who uses them, but they reck apart that persons family, friends, and they become a nuisance to society. NOTHING good comes from drugs. |
| Date | 06:55:14, July 07, 2008 CET | From | Sons of Liberty | To | Debating the Decentralization Act |
| Message | Our belief is in no tyranny on the individual; if the province unanimously does not want drugs, that is to say, not one person wants it, then the drugs won't be there and there is no worry. And if even one wants to do them, then we have no right to tell them not to just because we don't want to ourselves. We are individuals first and part of society second. It is the individual's choice to spend their lives as they see fit, not how a politician, or even friend or family member sees fit. And overall, morality and effects of anything are subjective, and cannot be bound to make law. It is my personal belief that relationships and marriage are damaging, destroys the people in them and are a nuisance to society and to friends and that nothing good comes from them, but I am not about to outlaw people having relationships just because I don't want one myself. My beliefs on relationships are subjective, just as yours on drugs are. We could both point to figures and statistics, but ultimately, all we have to do is not choose for other people. |
| Date | 19:44:20, July 07, 2008 CET | From | Party | To | Debating the Decentralization Act |
| Message | You can have that belief, as stupid and ridiculous as it is, its called freedom of opinion. But you have absolutely no facts to back it up. If I was voting for a party, I would vote for the one that actually knows what they're talking about. And you, obviously, do not. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 134 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 131 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "People say I steal. Well, all politicians steal." - Huey Long |