Ian Bushfield will be giving a talk this Sunday at the weekly BC Humanist Association meeting on the party. The meeting takes place Sunday, September 19th from 9:30-11:30 am the Oakridge Seniors Centre.
Here’s the abstract for the talk:
Humanist Politics: The Vancouver Secular Party
Pat Duffy Hutcheon wrote years ago that Humanists need to move beyond the stale debate over Left or Right-wing politics and begin to develop a rational-based approach to working to better society. 15 years later and many of the same debates over socialism and libertarianism are still occurring between humanists. With the Christian right gaining influence in Canada and religious schools receiving funds, it is time to set aside our differences and unite behind a single, secular banner. With the system strongly biased against new parties at the provincial and federal levels, a group of secularists have come together to form the Vancouver Secular Party, with the goal of attaining a status of electoral organization to run candidates in the 2011 Vancouver municipal election.
