After several serious discussions with other nations, concerning UN proposals, it has come to my attention that the popular belief is that the vast majority of voters probably don't even read the proposals if they exceed a certain text limit, and they end up voting anyway using their "gut feeling".
The truth is, that if a cleverly written proposal gained the pre-approval of the delegates, in order to be voted upon by UN members, and if said UN proposal contained a loophole or an illegality of somekind, the said UN proposal would pass just the same having all UN member nations forced to comply with it.
Upon these facts I state that the task of a delegate/PM giving their pre-approval or not on any proposal becomes increasingly important.
Having stated this, I wish to clarify what the region of Canada's internal stance is about UN proposal pre-approval based on of course... your esteemed and always respected opinions.
*Is it currently up to our Prime Minister's judgement alone to give pre-approval of any proposal?
*Should the Prime Minister be aided or not in his/her decision in deciding to pre-approve or not any UN proposal and if so in what form should the Prime Minister be aided?
*Should this matter be contemplated in the Constitution of the region of Canada?
*Given the number of proposals that can exist at any given time, does this matter warrant enough importance to spawn the election of a minister of UN affairs?
I've always felt comfortable perusing the UN proposals in NS, at least until my mind goes numb. I think if I saw one that looked promising, I would pm Chex along with my reasons. I don't understand why this needs to be considered. The constitution seemed pretty clear to me.
I agree that under the current system the bottom line is that one delegate's vote, approving a proposal or not, will make very little impact in the end which renders this issue more or less redundant.
However the existence of a minister of UN affairs (or anything similar) might be able to allow our region to express our views or the PM's views with other delegates represented by an elected minister. It would probably be the most boring job you could get but he/she would have plenty to do given all the existing proposals.
I figure this would be an interesting an innovative way to fight all the Telegram campaigning that is done to get phoney proposal's approved. The current UN proposal fits that description perfectly.
I've just checked the constitution and apparently this issue is unaddressed. If this issue needs to be addressed in the constitution is also debatable. :P