PC 2012-03-15 minutes

Old Business
1. Minutes

One of the purposes of the piratepad is that the final document serves as the minutes (as stated in Weiss Rules of Piratepad Order)

Neither Jake nor myself (Johann) have access to the wiki or we would have posted the minutes from the previous Pads, so can one of the other members do so?

Does anyone here have the ability to post to the wiki? I do. (Sean)

Conclusion: Nothing

New Business:
1. Platform Expansion

There has been little to no discussion on the forums, Why? <= This seems to have no point in relevance to platform reform <= last week we stopped talking platform because we were going to do it on the forums, and no one participated but me (Shawn) and Johann. <= Okay got it, I was thinking this was meaning in-general

I think most of us want to have a larger discussion on the issue and =So Sean, why'd you delete a chunk of this text too? Accident It's nice, but you really shouldn't delete other peoples text.

We cannot be in our own reality bubble away from public opinion and commonly expressed criticisms, we have to be a party that incorporates ideas from the grassroots and builds our platform around ideas from the public, as well as our own.<- yes Counter Motion: (Statement of Policy, not an amendment to our platforms) The Pirate Party of Canada accepts Rick Falkvinge's Pirate Wheel as a background to the beliefs of our party and recognize that to achieve our goals we must have a true democracy. First Past the Post is not a democratic electoral system and as such the Pirate Party is against it's use in parliamentary elections.

Conclusion: Motion: To add the following to our Political Platform: '8. Electoral Reform - The Pirate Party believes that the current FPTP system is not accurately representing the views of  Canadians in parliament - We believe a referendum should be held across Canada to determine a better system of electing our representatives' Vote failed: +2/-2