Our New Government--The First Week's Report Card

Day 478, 11:04 • Published in Canada Canada • by CSD

It has been a week since the Bruck government took power. Obviously, we cannot expect all of the campaign promises to be fulfilled in that short time. We can review the actions so far to see how successful the government has been.

We have used the campaign platform posted on the eCanada forum [url=” http://ecanada.forumotion.com/election-center-f42/coalition-for-change-cfc-platform-march-2009-t895.htm”] (here) [/url] as the basis for rating.


1. The Military

A. Encourage Canadians to enlist and train as CAF Regulars for deployment with full government-issued supplies when called upon or as National Reserves to support deployed Regulars and help defend Canadian soil in emergencies. This will help ensure consistency and growth in Canada's Military.

Our recent efforts in France would seem to indicate that this is not fully implemented. There are numerous messages on the forums from CAF members requesting supplies that were not delivered.

B. Continue to have the Minister of Defense (MoD) act as administrative supply officer for the CAF and work with the General to supply the CAF as is deemed effective. The CFC believes that a well laid out, top-down chain of command is essential to alliviate bottlenecks in the transfer of supplies and ensure that our soldiers are looked after while they protect our nation.

Like the previous item, the transfer of supplies did not happen, or only happened slowly.

C. Establish a training academy to train recruits at all levels of the CAF. New recruits will gain experience and knowledge into how the CAF operates and how they should go about requesting supplies, who their platoon commander is and how to fight. This will not only improve the quality of soldiers but also increase interest and activity in new members.

There is no indication that any action has been taken on this item.

D. Outfit critical Canadian regions with the highest quality affordable defense systems to ensure the security of our country and our citizens. With these new defense systems, these regions will be more formidable defensive strongholds. The CFC refuses to waste valuable Canadian dollars (CAD) on costly, low quality defense systems in less critical regions.

This campaign promise has been broken. The Bruck government placed a Q1 defense system in Alberta. Obviously, a Q1 system is low quality; Alberta, based on other comments by Bruck, is a “less critical” region.

E. Negotiate with our allies in ATLANTIS for mutual training exersizes and experience in organizing the CAF for mobilization. This will affirm successes of the training academy and will allow the CAF to troubleshoot areas of concern.

This is a promise met. The CAF has deployed to Romania to support our ally in their battle against Indonesia.

F. Institute an elite CAF unit of our highest ranked and strongest soldiers to be supplied more often then regular CAF and Reserves. If managed by the CFC, the CAF and citizens of Canada can rest assured that more damage will be inflicted by our forces than ever before.

Another broken promise: according to the Minister of Defense, there is no plan to create an elite force.

G. Maintain a 100-member-strong fighting force at all times.

Since we already had a 100-member force under the Zanalan administration, we will call this a wash.

H. Give the General of the CAF access to the Canada National Defense organization to better supply CAF members and help alleviate current supply issues by adding another layer of trusted support.

As we saw in promise A & B, this has not met the stated goal.

I. Select Divisional Commanders from within the CAF to watch over and instruct the CAF's new leaders. With the growing CAF many new platoons are required to meet demand. With this many new platoon commanders are also required and being new require another level of Military oversight.

We are not sure that we have seen any movement on this item. Like the training academy, we will wait to see if any action is taken on this.

MILITARY—OVERALL: D+
The CfC made nine promises in the election campaign. In the first week of their mandate, they have seen limited or no success on A, B & H. C & I have not been implemented yet. D & F are broken promises. They have met E & G although G is a promise to maintain what was already in place.

PART 2 - THE ECONOMY

1. Taxes

A. Review taxes and encourage Canadian businesses against foreign imports.

This is a broken promise. The two tax changes that have been passed since Bruck took office have both lowered the Import tax.

B. Encourage Canadian businesses to export to our allies in ATLANTIS and neutral nations.

No action has been taken to encourage an increase of exports

C. Raise the VAT tax to 10% to increase the value of the CAD by removing it from the market while strengthening government accounts.

This is a broken promise. Since the election there have been two tax changes passe😛 weapons and food. In both cases, the VAT was not raised to 10%.

ECONOMY—OVERALL: F
The CfC made three promises in the election campaign. Two of the three have been broken and the third has not received any action.

2. Immigration

A. Continue the Immigration Program and provide means to effectively communicate around the world.

This is a continuation of an existing program.

B. Encourage citizens to volunteer their time to the Minister of Immigration in recruiting. This will help integrate all new immigrants into society.

There has been no action to encourage existing citizens to assist in the Immigration program.

C. Continue to provide our nations citizen fee to registered citizens on the eCanadian forum.

This is a continuation of an existing program.

IMMIGRATION—OVERALL: C
The CfC made three promises in the election campaign. Two of the three were the continuation of existing programs. The third has not been implemented.

PART 3 - HEALTHCARE

1. Reallocate healthcare funding to critical regions since it is essential that the CAF soldiers operate out of regions with high quality hospitals. The CFC refuses to waste valuable CAD on costly, low quality hospitals in less critical regions.

No action has been taken on this item yet.

2. Restructure gifting to concentrate on elite CAF members full time and Regulars twice during battle. This will limit the quickly expanding CAF from enveloping our allocated budget.

As we saw in the military section, this has not been successful.

HEALTH CARE—OVERALL: F
The CfC made two promises in the election campaign. One has not been acted upon, and the other has not worked.

PART 4 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS

1. Commit to cooperating with our allies, militarily, economically and through media support.

There has been cooperation with our allies in military activities. We have not seen any indication economic or media activities have taken place.

2. Continue to aid our allies in military conflict at home and abroad.

Full pass

3. Encourage trade of manufactured and raw materials to ATLANTIS members and neutral nations.

No action has been taken on this item yet.

4. Continue to promote eCanada as a world power by helping to set ATLANTIS protocol and diplomacy in world affairs.

While there have been no reports of our activity within ATLANTIS, we will give Bruck a pass on this item.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS—OVERALL: C+

SUMMARY
Canadians elected the Bruck administration based, in part, on the promises made in the campaign platform. Based on this review of the first week in office, we should all wonder how many of the promises are going to be kept. The report card so far is not promising.

MILITARY—OVERALL: D+
ECONOMY—OVERALL: F
IMMIGRATION—OVERALL: C
HEALTH CARE—OVERALL: F
FOREIGN AFFAIRS—OVERALL: C+

WEEK ONE FINAL GRADE – D+ --