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Bill: Ecology Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Traditionalist Liberty Party
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: April 2835
Description[?]:
| Liberty starts at the local level. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of endangered animals.
Old value:: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep endangered animals; all other forms of keeping or trading in endangered animals are forbidden.
Current: Everyone may keep endangered animals, without any restrictions whatsoever.
Proposed: Local governments decide about this.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on tree plantation.
Old value:: The government requires tree plantation at replacement level for all logging or clearance operations.
Current: The government encourages, but does not require new and replacement plantation.
Proposed: Local governments may set plantation policy.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of wild animals as pets.
Old value:: The government maintains a list of dangerous wild animals which may not be kept as pets; other wild animals may be kept as pets.
Current: Wild animals may be kept as pets; the owners of dangerous wild animals must take the necessary measures to ensure they can't escape.
Proposed: This matter is left up to the local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:10:10, October 16, 2009 CET | From |  Nrzi Prta (Democratic Party) | To | Debating the Ecology Act |
| Message | We're not buying the reason behind this bill, there is no liberty in allowing companies to cut down tree or to kill and kept endangered animal. It's the responsibility of the representative of the people to start making decision, not to push everything into the hand of government employees. |
| Date | 18:01:17, October 16, 2009 CET | From | Traditionalist Liberty Party | To | Debating the Ecology Act |
| Message | Why is that the democrats feel that by us wanting to transfer federal powers to provincial government, we are creating a corporate state? |
| Date | 18:25:35, October 16, 2009 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Ecology Act |
| Message | Local governments are as competent if not MORE competent about the needs of their people than the federal parliament. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 380 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 218 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 152 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." - Marcus Aurelius |