Nothing on the topic sections below is proposed as locked law. These are questions and draft arguments for public Decision Packages. Only the decision method and open government are fixed commitments today.

The supreme priority

Safer, smarter, stronger, richer lives for Canadian citizens first — and for their children. That is the only pass mark. Not donors in the dark. Not identity fashion. Not applause abroad at citizens’ expense.

The Maple Leaf does not govern by mood. It governs by a published method. Read that method next — then open government — then the topics still under debate.

How every decision is made → · Open government → · Full framework →

How every decision is made

The emphasis is logic. Extreme logical scrutiny on every material decision. Not a slogan cycle. Not one side talking only to itself.

Governments already publish some decision material: regulatory impact notes, budget tables, consultations. That is incomplete. We extend public Decision Packages so they cover everything that matters (laws, taxes, borders, programs, hires, grants, contracts, major spends), not a thin set of showpiece files. Same standard every time. If it cannot survive pure logic, it does not pass.

The purpose, every time

Government exists to improve the lives of Canadian citizens today and their children: safer, smarter, stronger, richer. If a proposal fails that test, it dies or is redesigned.

Extreme scrutiny: logic, history, all spectrums

Each package holds the strongest case for and the strongest case against, drawn from every end of the political spectrum, and from history: what was tried, what failed, where the money went, who paid the cost. Hidden assumptions named. Chains of cause written so a competent outsider can check them. If the argument collapses when slogans are stripped away, the decision fails.

Uncensored when livelihoods are at stake

The analysis is uncensored. We cannot afford censored viewpoints when Canadian livelihoods are at stake. No fashion filter that hides risk. No ban on inconvenient questions. No sacred claim protected from challenge. Hide the hard case and citizens pay for the lie. One unreplicated study is not permanent law. Prior spend that moved no metric is not a reason to spend again.

Humans still sign

Tools may help stress-test claims, with prompts and sources published. A named official still signs, can reject the output, and answers for the result. Machines do not govern. No social-credit state.

Open books make the method checkable. Leaner government follows when waste and bad decisions die in public. Not rule by algorithm: rule by proven reason, with tools as instruments.

Full axioms, evidence grades, and worked examples: party-platform/20-universal-decision-logic.md · Human oversight and analysis tools: 08-analysis-oversight.md

Draft directions (under debate)

Illustrative only — not a statute list. Topics people may notice if drafts survived open Decision Packages.

Sketch of change (illustrative · under debate)

Not a locked statute table. A plain-language sketch of directions under debate beside the ground we inherit — so the conversation is clear. Method and open books are firm; the rest must survive Decision Packages.

The left column is a plain-language sketch of practice as it stands — not a full statute book. Maple rules need careful drafting before they bind.

1 · 5 · 10 years (illustrative · if debate holds)

Scenario only — not a campaign promise calendar. If method and open books are law and later drafts survive debate, this is one possible arc. Patience still applies.

Targets are aims under discipline, not magic. Healing culture and health takes years. The plan is honest about that.

1. Open government — books and Decision Packages

Open the state map → Treasury money flow → GitHub source →

This is open source government. Taxes feed one Public Treasury, fully public. Every non-exempt dollar sits on a ledger. Contracts open. Trace IDs follow money. Numbers that do not add up trigger investigation. Any public dollar requested to leave Canada needs public analysis and a Decision Package first. End state: a national open-government platform, Canadian-hosted, where proposals, waste reports, and Public Chamber access require a verified Canadian citizen identity account in the spirit of My Service Canada, citizens only. Until then: this living model and public proposals run on the GitHub prototype so the design can be read and improved while the party is built. If an idea serves citizens first and the logic and math check out, it can move toward the plan and real law. If it fails, the failure stays public. See the home page Open government diagrams and CONTRIBUTING.md.

For material decisions the public record includes the outcome, the official’s signed reasons, the Universal Decision Logic file, what the analysis was prompted, what the analysis concluded without a fashion filter, human council notes, and Trace links.

Depth: Health covenant · ministry model

2. Healthcare reform (under debate)

Canada’s public health bill is enormous (hundreds of billions a year across governments). A large share of that bill is driven by preventable disease (poor diet, heavy drinking, smoking, no exercise, metabolic neglect and the chronic load that follows). Credible order-of-magnitude work puts roughly 15–25% or more of health-system cost in that preventable band (on a ~$300–400B all-government health scale, that is on the order of tens of billions a year, and higher if second-order disability and productivity loss are counted). Final program design will cost against CIHI and the latest burden-of-disease tables before any statute binds.

Jurisdiction: delivery is mostly provincial. Federal levers are transfers, the Canada Health Act frame, tax treatment, drug regulation, and national data. We do not pretend Ottawa runs every ward.

Lead design is incentives and capacity — not a CHA-breaking “merit exclusion” gate. A head-on collision with universality/accessibility is not the method’s first draft. Same goal (cut preventable load, reward effort, expand supply): fund prevention, publish outcome data, tax-advantaged health savings where designed, and private capacity for elective care that must compete on speed and price. Emergency care always stabilizes first.

Under 25, full public cover remains while brains are still forming. For adults, the public case for prevention and competition is made with data and price signals — not with an administrative “health effort” police state larger than the savings.

Maple flips the incentive. Public catastrophic care is a citizen covenant for adults who make a basic, verified effort to avoid preventable harm. Keep that effort and the serious public pool stays free, and emergency care always stabilizes first for everyone under the system. Refuse it and non-emergency care is on you through private insurance, private clinics, or cash, while the lighter public load funds real tax cuts so that path is affordable. We pay the public bill when you have shown good health habits. We stop punishing the healthy for the freeloading of the careless.

Shrinking the open-ended public load is also how private care can flourish. Private providers must be competent to survive. They can fail, they cannot rely on a taxpayer bailout, and so they are driven to better, faster, cheaper care. A pure public monopoly is too often incentivized by funding volume and political bailouts instead of results. Maple keeps a strong public catastrophic backstop for people who keep the covenant, and lets a competitive private sector serve the rest of non-emergency demand at real prices.

Figures are directional for public debate, not a finished actuarial table. Lock numbers before statute.

What you get when you keep the covenant (or are under 25)

• Public catastrophic basket (cancer, trauma, heart attack, major surgery, serious illness on a published list).
• Emergency care first.
• Stepped care that prefers sleep, food, movement and honest therapy before endless pills where evidence supports it.

What changes when you will not try (25+)

• Non-emergency care moves to private clinics, insurance, or cash, paid with the tax room a leaner public system returns to citizens.
• Private providers compete on quality, speed, and price because they can fail without a taxpayer bailout.
• Engaged improvement can restore partial or full covenant status (this is not permanent exile for people who turn around).
• The healthy neighbour is no longer the permanent ATM for optional self-harm.

3. Tax reform (under debate)

Three dependent children, while the parents are married or common-law together: zero personal income tax for both parents. Deep deductions on the path for 1–2 kids. Open waste cuts and hard-money rules so inflation stops silently taxing you.

Budget 2025 public tables. Sequence: open ledger → cut waste → redesign health → then permanent rate cuts.

4. Food reform (under debate)

Full public disclosure of what is in food. Whole and healthy food tax-favoured; ultra-processed taxed harder. Total ban on advertising ultra-processed and otherwise unhealthy food products — not a soft “restriction,” a ban on the sales pitch that makes disease profitable. Gambling ads banned. Kids protected from UPF push.

• Ad ban: ultra-processed and unhealthy food products may not be advertised to the public. No “kids’ brand” loopholes. Trade-law aware definitions.
• Still for sale: adults may buy; we ban the industrial push, not the existence of the shelf.
• Why everyone benefits: less childhood addiction to junk, less diabetes and heart disease load, less tax for preventable care, clearer market for real food producers.

5. Vice laws (under debate)

Ages follow harm to the developing brain and to society — not fashion. Children protected. No glamorizing addiction.

Ages and legal substances

Psilocybin — major reform

Regulated adult access from 21. Dependence and overdose risk sit far below alcohol; clinical evidence of benefit exists for depression, end-of-life distress, and some addiction pathways in supervised settings. Primary literature will be re-checked as law is drafted. Hypocrisy ends: high-harm legal drugs and total bans on lower-harm tools cannot both claim “public health.” Rules still apply: purity, dose limits, no youth ads, impaired driving and workplace safety.

Online sexual harm (enforceable first)

• Strong age-verification for commercial adult content — protect minors first (achievable now).
• Non-consensual distribution stays a hard crime; platform liability for knowing failure to remove.
• Gambling ads: full ban.
• A categorical industry ban is in the longer draft set for counsel review (s.2(b) / Butler ground). It is not the lead federal promise.

Gambling ads

Full ban on gambling advertising.

6. Immigration & secure borders (under debate)

Immigration serves Canadians first. The border is real. We admit what we do not already have at home in surplus — skill that net benefits citizens — and we refuse what would hollow wages, housing, or the law.

Secure borders

• Control of entry is not optional. End catch-and-release theatre at the line.
• End of asylum as a mass loophole. True, verified cases only; hard timelines; failed claims mean removal — not years of residence by delay.
• Immediate deportation of violent criminal non-citizens. Violent crime triggers removal priority; appeals do not become a multi-year stay by default.

Who may enter

• Skilled immigration only as the default — high skill that fills a verified gap Canada does not already have in surplus at home.
• Admission must benefit the country: wages, housing, fiscal balance, and social trust — not lobby fashion.
• Capacity formula: inflows track housing, hospitals, schools, and labour need. Volume is not a virtue.
• Temporary worker and student streams capped and audited — not a back door to permanent mass settlement.

Conduct-based screening (everyone)

• Same standard for all entrants and status holders — no faith named, no ethnic test.
• Refuse and remove for advocating or practicing violence, coercion, honour-based control, or open defiance of the Criminal Code and equality under Canadian law.
• Independent oversight so security screening is not a black box of political favour or prejudice.
• Freedom of belief does not license violence or unequal legal status of persons. Conduct is what the border and removal system can enforce; naming one religion adds no power and unlimited liability.

7. National service year (federal incentive first) (under debate)

Grade 10 is provincial curriculum. Ottawa does not replace it by slogan. Lead federal design: a funded voluntary National Service Year — military-style training (fitness, first aid, emergency skills, discipline, civic basics), not combat deployment as the aim — with real incentives (tuition credit, trade pathways, hiring preference). Streams may be mostly sex-separated so people train instead of drama.

Why offer it young: habits harden in the mid-teens. If the program is excellent, uptake proves it. Compulsion or “instead of grade 10” stays on the longer draft page only with provincial partners and Charter-careful drafting. That is slower and weaker than a provincial statute — and we say so. Decision Package in the Explorer →

• Merit education after the year: no identity quotas in grading or gifted access.
• Fitness: male/female standards where physiology matters for safety.
• Limited civilian track where medical or other lawful exception applies.

Children’s clothing materials (under debate)

Push children’s garments toward organic and natural-fibre standards (and restricted finishes) to cut needless chemical load on developing bodies. Clear public lists; phase-in so supply can adjust. Same logic as real food: protect kids’ biology first.

Citizen waste & fraud bounty (under debate)

Verified Canadian citizens can report waste and fraud. When a finding is confirmed and tax dollars actually fall (clawback, cancel, stop-pay), the reporter is paid. Reward scales with verified fiscal impact. Public scoreboard of savings and bounties paid.

The point is simple: the whole country is paid to fix the machine — not wait four years for a government that does nothing major. Try the demo docket in the Explorer →

What changes for you

Not slogans — concrete shifts in money, health, streets, and the next generation. Middle first. Builders invited to stay. Working Canadians get a real ladder.

Concrete life changes (examples)

• Paycheque: waste cut + health lean + provincial stack → thousands more kept over years; family of three dependent kids: income tax at zero for both parents when rules are met.
• Grocery & kids: truth on labels; no ads for ultra-processed junk; clean food cheaper relative to UPF.
• Hospital: less preventable adult load; merit after 25; emergency always first.
• Streets: secure borders; violent non-citizens removed; repeat offenders prioritized; less alcohol/gambling glamour → less related crime over time.
• Children’s path: one year of national service — discipline and cohesion for a generation.
• Trust: you can audit the treasury yourself.

National impact & the math (under debate)

Below is Batch 1 of transparent projections: public Budget 2025 anchors, then channels that reduce the deficit, strengthen the dollar, cut crime and disease load, and free room for permanent tax reform. Ranges are probability bands, not prophecy. Full method: party platform 19-national-projections.md.

Budget 2025 public tables + CIHI framing. Sequence: open ledger → cut waste → redesign health & borders → then permanent rate cuts.

How the deficit shrinks (illustrative annual channels, steady state after phase-in)

• Open State waste & fraud: ~1.5–3% of federal program expense recoverable → ~$6–15B/yr (mid ~$10B). Probability of ≥$6B with real ledger + contracts: high if enforced.
• Preventable health load: 15–25% cut in avoidable lifestyle disease pressure on a ~$399B system over a decade → order of ~$15–40B/yr system-wide (fed + prov) mid case ~$25B; federal fiscal share via transfers and tax room is a fraction — model as ~$5–12B federal room + large provincial room.
• Immigration fiscal & housing pressure: capacity-capped skilled-only + removals reduce housing stress and social program load; illustrative federal net ~$2–8B/yr after phase-in (wide band; depends on levels cut vs status quo).
• Crime & justice: remove violent non-citizens; prioritize repeat offenders; less alcohol/gambling glamour → mid case ~$1–4B/yr justice + victim-cost relief (system-wide), with large non-fiscal value (safety, insurance, business hours).
• UPF ad ban + food tax shift: lower future disease (lags 5–15 years); near-term small ad-tax loss, larger long-run health gain. Mid long-run ~$2–6B/yr health system relief.

Order of operations (why debt falls without magic)

From deficit to immense surplus → sovereign wealth

• Year 0: ~$78B federal deficit (Budget 2025-scale).
• Years 1–3: open waste + borders + early enforcement → deficit −$10–25B vs drift (mid ~$15B).
• Years 4–10: health, food, crime, and productivity compound; aim is not a thin balance but an immense surplus.
• Surplus use: invest through a Canadian sovereign wealth fund (SWF) — national capital for the long term, not annual fashion spending.
• GDP per capita (not just total GDP) is the scoreboard — fewer empty population boosts, more output and order per person.

Dollar among the world’s strongest

• Surplus + low inflation mandate → CAD that holds purchasing power.
• Resource settlement in CAD; capital that stays under fair open rules.
• Aim after a disciplined decade: one of the strongest currencies on earth, with minimal inflation — earned, not declared.

Crime, alcohol, immigration — second-order benefits

• Secure borders + skilled-only: fewer capacity shocks; lower chance of importing criminal networks; wage floor protection for workers already here.
• Immediate removal of violent non-citizens: direct cut in victimizations attributable to that set; justice system capacity freed for citizen cases.
• Repeat offenders: higher expected cost of reoffending → fewer cycles (elasticity uncertain; direction clear).
• Higher alcohol/cannabis age + gambling ad ban: less youth initiation; less alcohol-linked assault and disorder over a generation (lags; mid confidence).
• National service (instead of grade 10): after 5–10 years of cohorts, a country with military-style habits of order — cohesion, fitness, readiness — crime and drift fall; prosperity can flourish.
• Online harm rules (if a draft passed): age-verification and non-consensual enforcement first; any broader ban stays under debate and counsel.

Why this is in nearly everyone’s interest

• Workers: wages less undercut; safer streets; more of each hour kept.
• Parents: tax power for three kids; less junk advertising; schools of merit; a year that forms the young.
• Patients: hospitals less clogged by preventable load; emergency first for all eligible.
• Savers & builders: a dollar that holds value; fair open contracts; capital welcome if it pays Canadians.
• Newcomers who qualify: clear rules, skill that is wanted, a country that still works when they arrive.

Further of the plan

Supporting pillars — open only what you need.

Merit only

Public institutions are professional. No social-fashion branding in government. No race or gender preference programs — that is discrimination. One law. Hire and fund by competence.