Federal politicians seeking your vote, will have the following constitutional jurisdiction, i.e. the following tools, in their Parliamentary tool boxes, if they become or continue to be a Member of Parliament in Ottawa:
The power to spend money, i.e. pay dollars to the City of Mississauga for City projects like public transit and infrastructure,
The power to refuse to spend money, i.e refuse to give dollars to the City of Mississauga for City projects like public transit and infrastructure,
And impose conditions on spending that money or refusing to spend money:
e.g. to force the City to build more "homes", i.e. 4099 Erin MIllls Parkway, as Developers want, or
e.g. to engage in meeting the needs of both existing residents and future residents of the City,
The power to regulate Banking, including conditions for mortgages under CMHC, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, including
The power to establish National Housing Standards,
The power to pass Environmental legislation and Carbon-emission controls.
Some federal candidates will say that once elected, they will have NO jurisdiction over the 4099 Erin Mills Parkway re-development issue. You need to be ready to challenge them on such statements. You need to be ready to fact-check what any candidate or politician says. The first item we need to put in our own tool boxes is basic knowledge of federal jurisdiction and the federal power to spend money.
We need to meet with each other and talk about that jurisdiction.
Members of the 4099 Opposition Group need their own tool boxes ready at their doors, ready at the nomination meeting for the party(s) of their choice, and at all-candidates meetings. Our tool boxes should include basic knowledge of Canadian constitutional law, i.e. what federal politicians can do and what federal politicians cannot do in Parliament. Our tool boxes should include subtle questions for each candidate at our doors and blunt questions for each candidate at the doors:
Will you meet with constituents or their representatives when they have questions about major issues in the community?
Will you answer my letters?
Will you respond to questions by the media about 4099 Erin Mills Parkway?
Will your political party punish the City of Mississauga, by cutting off funds for transit or infrastructure, if it does not build condo towers at 4099 Erin Mills parkway?
Will your political party interfere with the municipal jurisdiction of Mississauga City Council to decide whether or not the application by Queenscorp to re-develop 4099 Erin Mills Parkway should be approved?
Are land Developers or their Associations significant donors to your election campaign or your party's election campaign?
Should the small business tenants at 4099 Erin Mills Parkway be protected?
Should the historical commercial nature of 4099 Erin Mills Parkway be protected?
Thoughts on federal jurisdiction from Pierre Poilievre March 17, 2023:
"- Impose a NIMBY penalty on big city gatekeepers for egregious cases of NIMBYism. We will empower residents to file complaints about NIMBYism with the federal infrastructure department. When complaints are well-founded, we will withhold infrastructure dollars until municipalities remove the blockage and allow homebuilding to take place.
- Reward cities who are removing gatekeepers and getting homes built by providing a building bonus for municipalities who boost homebuilding."
What items, ideas, and questions should 4099 Opposition Group members put into boxes, folders, clipboards that they keep by their front doors, in preparation for visits by political candidates coming to ask for their votes in the forthcoming Canada federal election?
Are you prepared to work with other members of the 4099 Opposition Group to build such tool boxes, folders, and clipboards for residents? Will you talk to your neighbours about preparation of their own tool boxes?
We all need help in using civil and accurate language.
We also need tools that help us to fact-check what friends, neighbours, and social media tell us.
Powers of the Parliament
Marginal note:Legislative Authority of Parliament of Canada
91 It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government of Canada, in relation to all Matters not coming within the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces; and for greater Certainty, but not so as to restrict the Generality of the foregoing Terms of this Section, it is hereby declared that (notwithstanding anything in this Act) the exclusive Legislative Authority of the Parliament of Canada extends to all Matters coming within the Classes of Subjects next hereinafter enumerated; that is to say,
1.
Repealed.End note (44)
1A.
The Public Debt and Property.End note (45)
2.
The Regulation of Trade and Commerce.
2A.
Unemployment insurance.End note (46)
3.
The raising of Money by any Mode or System of Taxation.
4.
The borrowing of Money on the Public Credit.
5.
Postal Service.
6.
The Census and Statistics.
7.
Militia, Military and Naval Service, and Defence.
8.
The fixing of and providing for the Salaries and Allowances of Civil and other Officers of the Government of Canada.
9.
Beacons, Buoys, Lighthouses, and Sable Island.
10.
Navigation and Shipping.
11.
Quarantine and the Establishment and Maintenance of Marine Hospitals.
12.
Sea Coast and Inland Fisheries.
13.
Ferries between a Province and any British or Foreign Country or between Two Provinces.
14.
Currency and Coinage.
15.
Banking, Incorporation of Banks, and the Issue of Paper Money.
16.
Savings Banks.
17.
Weights and Measures.
18.
Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes.
19.
Interest.
20.
Legal Tender.
21.
Bankruptcy and Insolvency.
22.
Patents of Invention and Discovery.
23.
Copyrights.
24.
Indians, and Lands reserved for the Indians.
25.
Naturalization and Aliens.
26.
Marriage and Divorce.
27.
The Criminal Law, except the Constitution of Courts of Criminal Jurisdiction, but including the Procedure in Criminal Matters.
28.
The Establishment, Maintenance, and Management of Penitentiaries.
29.
Such Classes of Subjects as are expressly excepted in the Enumeration of the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces.
And any Matter coming within any of the Classes of Subjects enumerated in this Section shall not be deemed to come within the Class of Matters of a local or private Nature comprised in the Enumeration of the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces.End note (47)
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