Dear Justin Trudeau: Prime Minister of Canada.

When a few dozen Mexican farm workers finally decide to avoid being exploited and decide to walk away from the farm fields of Canada, thousands of hungry college and university trained Canadian bureaucrats will wonder what went wrong with the economic system. They may also wonder how to grow vegetables in office buildings and yes, it is possible to grow vegetables in office buildings using hydroponic gardening methods, and that is what they should be doing instead of button pushing. 

 Millions of bureaucrats certainly don't know how or where to grow and harvest vegetables and the private multi-million dollar sky scraper office buildings they inhabit today, during daylight hours, lock their doors at night. Technically trained office workers are seldom valued. They work for large multi-national  exploitive companies who have CEO's willing to do anything to maintain the status quo...and that includes keeping office workers from climbing up the hierarchy ladder. Those same companies will lobby the Canadian government for tax breaks.

 While millions of office workers remain trapped in their offices, some farmers in Quebec, Canada, plow under their crops because not enough Mexican workers are available to help them harvest their vegetables. Other farmers dump their milk or kill their chickens if the market under values their produce.  What in hell is going on? Are Canadian students and welfare recipients not given the opportunity to work on the land? Why are there so many office bureaucrats and not enough Canadian born farm workers? Why are our educational priorities so screwed up? Why not send teenagers into the woods to plant trees and also to the farms to learn from the farmers and also, from the Mexican farm workers? I also suggest the Canadian government not subsidize Oil companies or any company that creates pollution and keeps thousands of office workers busy finding ways to manipulate the citizens of Canada.

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The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has shown what Canada can do when we treat a crisis like a crisis. We have thrown out the old rulebook of what is politically possible and focused on what is politically necessary to protect ourselves and our loved ones. 

I want to thank you for your work in these difficult times, but also to tell you that I don’t want us to go back to a ‘normal’, or a system which creates rampant inequalities based on a model of infinite exploitation and destruction of nature.

Now that the time has come to rebuild our future — and we will — we need to have courage and foresight to create something better. The recovery from COVID-19 must make our society more resilient, fair and sustainable. 

People in Canada deserve a world that values cooperation and caring and a government that embeds these values in our public policies. That respects nature and lives within its limits. A Canada where Indigenous rights and wisdom are not just a slogan, but protected by law. A world that recognizes that solutions to climate change can create great jobs and a better future.  

A green recovery for Canada means investing in: Trees and gardens and Green-Houses for every citizen in proportion to the territory they inhabit.

A much faster and just transition to a sustainable low-carbon economy if climate change does not destroy us first with viral pandemics and floods and forest fires!

The protection and restoration of land, freshwater, and ocean ecosystems along with the wildlife that call these places home is now next to impossible today, in 2020, with our present human population growth. Sex education in the schools must become a priority and the school buildings themselves must be transformed into large round Sunlit Green Houses with computers and quiet rooms to study Botany and Biology and Science.

The current land development companies creating Condos and Apartments and Industrial Parks everywhere there is an inch of space must be shut down and reimagined. They have become dangerous exploiters and are potentially creating future overcrowded slums! Developers are buying up every piece of farm land and small Green space they could find available in Canada and especially in Quebec, which considers itself an independent country. These money hungry developers are backed by our tax hungry municipal governments and the over-crowding they are creating, will cost the federal government more in the future, if there is a future, as global warming continues to heat up the planet and continues to change the atmosphere. A few years ago in countries such as Syria, over-crowding and poverty and misery created civil disobedience which lead to...war! I suggest we create housing apartments under farm lands using protected fibre optic cables to bring sunlight down to the people. We can also convert under-used industrial parks back into apartment buildings and wrap the buildings in Greenery. Literally create buildings with thousands of plants growing on the roof tops and inside and outside the buildings. Europe is ahead of us in this respect. 

An end to the use of single-use plastics, and the growth of a circular economy. Money is not edible!

The replacement of toxic chemicals used in agriculture and in the creation of consumer goods. We need cleaner and safer manufacturing alternatives. Elon Musk and his Gigafactory is an example of a clean manufacturing plant. 

The development of accessible and affordable and healthy communities and transportation networks.  For example the Electric commuter busses presently used in the city of Moscow, Russia.

A future that prioritizes well-being and social and racial justice with economic equity for all people living in Canada...created in partnership with Indigenous Peoples and the communities most exposed to environmental harm.

I urge you to speak out in favour of a green and just recovery with your fellow Parliamentarians and the media and I look forward to working with you and our community to build this better world. Thanks for reading

Sincerely,

SIGNED: JOSEPH NELSON RAGLIONE.

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