Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda
Message from Noni, Bartlett, CON Oversight board member:
Here it is. A lengthy dissertation but please take the time to read this. Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.
Some members have expressed concern that our group focus has come off the rails.
Let’s all think about it for a sec. Here is a factual and provable synopsis’s of the comprehensive research various members of our group through their seeming random “conspiracy theoretical” contributions have uncovered.
When I formed this group it was because I had identified a specific issue, the AAP, that I wanted to:
a) hold the city accountable for;
b) inform citizens of the noncompliant means our city had been using to pass bylaws to borrow money and redistribute land use; and
c) stop the current bylaw to borrow up to $48 million from being adopted in noncompliance.
But here’s what happened. Our intervention in preventing our city from adopting the noncompliant bylaw caused us to glean much more information and it became apparent there is a much larger issue within the administration of our city.
And, as our group size increased we learned from many members who had been far more engaged with the conduct of city matters than we had, that our city staff, council and mayor have participated in decision making for some time, that appears not to serve the best interests of our citizens.
The issues are multifaceted, systemic, interwoven and cannot be easily defined to individual issues since we have learned almost all issues are inextricably tied into others, and those into more yet.
As you know, my brilliant husband Sandy and other amazing, dedicated and selfless members worked tirelessly for weeks to successfully demonstrate to our city that they were conducting AAP’s in noncompliance.
Out of that experience manifested a massive web of other interconnected issues and therein lies the greater picture and distinct disconnect between the citizens of Nanaimo and its mayor, staff and council.
It began with the secondary observation (after noting the noncompliant conducted of the AAP) of the anticipated final cost to build the NOC and its associated AAP loan amount that seemed extraordinary;
The city tried to sell the project as a 65 year old public works yard building that needed to be rebuilt when in reality it was to encompass much more than a simple rebuild of the works yard building;
A further question arose of green initiatives utilized within the design of the building of the NOC as a potential answer to the extraordinary cost after it was discovered and confirmed by our mayor that he did sign himself and Nanaimo up to the Global Covenant of Mayors.(GCoM)
The GCoM is a massive global consortium that demands performance of it’s costly climate green initiative criteria and reporting of same within specific time frames;
Since contracting with the GCoM this news report came out:
“The City of Nanaimo is among twenty-five municipalities across Canada working together through an intensive pilot program focusing on local climate action. Led by the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) Canada, these municipalities have been working together to review and share best practices to lower greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for a changing climate.
As part of a key milestone, Nanaimo has been awarded the Adaptation Badge for its Climate Resilience Strategy, which has met the requirements set by GCoM on climate change adaptation and integrated climate action planning.
Adopted by Council in 2020, the City’s Climate Change Resilience Strategy outlines how Nanaimo will adapt to climate change over the coming decades. The Strategy looks at what actions the City will need to take to prepare the climate change affecting City infrastructure, park management, land-use planning and emergency planning.”
Ah…could this be why our council is raising our property taxes to unprecedented heights in order to accommodate the extraordinary costs of a new infrastructure and other contracted climate initiatives that must be performed pursuant to a time line?
Citizens have been very clear they are struggling to make ends meet, put food on the table, gas in their cars, obtain employment and heat their homes in the current depressed national economy and increased costs including interest rates, yet our City is in full swing building out substantial new infrastructure, notably including lengths of new bike lanes, (eg Biggs Road running from Jingle Pot & Biggs down past the front of the jail then ending abruptly at the bridge beyond) with concrete at, as Councillor Sheryl Armstrong suggested is $3K a square meter.
And, in signing onto the GCoM did our city ultimately commit tax payers to an irrevocable financial commitment to an unelected global master? Let’s look further.
The Global Covenant of Mayors was launched in 2008 by the European Union. (EU) in order to implement Global Agenda 2030.
The Compact of Mayors was launched in September 2014 by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, Michael R. Bloomberg and mayors from global city networks C40, ICLEI and UCLG.
Both initiatives have supported participating local governments in setting ambitious climate reduction goals, taking ambitious action to meet those objectives, and measuring their progress publicly and transparently.
Please note the words “…ambitious action to meet those objectives…”
Further, the UN and World Economic Forum (WEF) signed a partnership in 2019 to implement Global Agenda 2030; the Colour wheel that is represented in the “O” at the end of “Nanaimo” at Sway’ A’ Lana Lagoon appears to depict Nanaimo’s commitment and participation in Agenda 2030 resolutions and it’s provable tie to the UN/WEF partnership in implementing Agenda 2030. (Picture below)
To Clarify, the WEF is another massive global consortium whose mission is to seize global sovereignty in order to centralize all financial, health, mobility, consumption and political systems within its organization.
AND GET THIS!!! There are internal issues in that partnership between the UN and the WEF and the following article demonstrates the disturbing underpinning issues between the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. (WEF)
“240 civil society organizations and 40 international networks–among them numerous ESCR-Net members–have called on the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General to end the recently signed UN’s Strategic Partnership Agreement with the World Economic Forum (WEF). The call, made in an open letter, condemned the agreement for “delegitimiz[ing] the United Nations and weaken(ing) the role of states in global decision-making.”
Signed in June, 2019 the agreement promises to “accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” by deepening institutional coordination and collaboration between the UN and the WEF. Furthermore, the agreement grants transnational corporations preferential and deferential access to the UN System at the expense of States and public interest actors….(AND HERE IS THE IMPORTANT CONCERN OF THE UN) “it moves the world dangerously towards a privatized and undemocratic global governance” said Gonzalo Berrón of Transnational Institute in presenting the letter.
So!!!! It is unfortunate that after the fact of partnering with the WEF the UN has discovered the WEF’s intention to centralize and take control of the sovereignty of all nations who have committed to the UN to support the great work it had been doing to liberate marginalized populations worldwide including within Canada.
It is like your doctor’s clinic had partnered with a Consortium of cannibals in order to get much needed body parts for transplants.
So let’s look further at how much deeper our little city got tied up in all of this….
In their enthusiasm to show their genuine care and concern for the salvation of our planet our Mayor, staff and Council, in its infinite wisdom also signed Nanaimo on to a financial scheme called the “doughnut economic model”, the first city in Canada to do so.
December 2020, Nanaimo Council motion:
“That the City of Nanaimo adopt the Doughnut Economic Model as a cohesive vision for all City initiatives and planning processes; and that a city portrait for Nanaimo be created to scale down the doughnut economics framework, that the city portrait be blended with the REIMAGINE NANAIMO process and that the appropriate measurable targets and indicators relevant to the community be identified and included in the framework to track progress.”
The model was created by an Oxford Graduate, Kate Waworth as a “playfully serious” approach to ensuring no one falls short of food, housing and healthcare and a political voice while ensuring that collectively we do not overshoot the Earth’s life supporting systems”.
Or…in other words, to quote The Guardian, “Everyone has enough, but not too much”.
Sounds very kumbaya doesn’t it? Taking a closer look because Nanaimo made Time Magazine with the following observation.
TIME
“Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Also Replace Capitalism?
In Nanaimo, Canada, a city councillor who opposed the adoption of the model in December called it “a very left-wing philosophy which basically says that business is bad, growth is bad, development’s bad.”
The Doughnut Economy Model is a theory, not proven to be successful because until the “courageous leap of faith” by Nanaimo Councillors it had not been employed in Canada and only a few cities globally.
So far it’s looking mighty expensive to our tax payers to “have enough but not too much” which makes sense because the large outer ring of the doughnut that caps the middle ring being the taxpayers “prosperity” retains the largest amount of taxpayer income and is allocated to “saving the planet” much like our current provincial carbon tax and our federal carbon tax. Get the picture?
So now our city is engaged in a commitment to serving not one master, (citizens of Nanaimo), not two masters (the GCoM) not three masters (the UN/WEF 2030 Agenda), but four masters if you include the theoretical Doughnut Economic Model & it’s cap on prosperity in order to, allocate unbelievable sums of our incomes toward saving the planet through abrupt, and unaffordable increases in property tax.
Has our group lost its focus? Absolutely not. The continued discussions covering all areas of our city’s administration from A-Z has uncovered multitudes of interconnected issues that lead to Provincial, Federal and International relationships with our city, directly and indirectly that have seemingly influenced many of our Mayor, Staff and Council’s decisions over the last two decades.
Sure, some discussion on our Facebook page is clearly irrelevant but much has led to shocking discoveries that we could never have imagined were possible.
I am truly grateful for the continued input from members. I’m equally greatful for the skepticism expressed by other members in order to keep things balanced and real. As random or crazy as some of it seems it takes panning through vast, unlimited rivers of water to find the tiny nuggets of gold.
P.S. Big AAP law suit coming at the end of the month. Yes, Sandy is council for the tax payers on this one. Will keep you posted.