We invite you to play on the field. Politics is a team sport that you as a citizen play an key role in. Choose from the tools below to begin holding your government accountable, learn and discuss policies, share your ideas and participate in a community of your peers.
How to Use Polifourm
Voters are offered a narrow set of choices, determined by party-selected candidates from private organizations.
Limited Voting Options
Lack of Voice
People who are occupied with work or family have little time to engage in public matters like volunteering or fundraising, leaving their voices unheard.
No Audience, No Voice
Without a platform or audience, many citizens find it difficult to have their opinions and concerns heard.
Polarized Party Interests
Party leaders are incentivized to prioritize the interests of their voter base, while ignoring the interests of the whole country.
Lack of Accountability
Politicians are only held accountable during election season, leaving years in between without receiving feedback.
Media controlled by the state is inherently biased and corruptible, this distorts relevant political information.
State Run Media
Politicians often prioritize initiatives that will help them get re-elected, rather than addressing important long-term issues.
Focus on Re-Election
Promises made by politicians are often not followed through, with little transparency in their actions.
Lack of Transparency
Partisan topics dominate the conversation, preventing progress on a unified national agenda that serves the best interests of the country
Partisan Interests
Changing Political Landscape
Problem: Citizens are increasingly frustrated by their inability to influence ongoing issues between elections due to slow feedback mechanisms and a widespread lack of understanding of government processes, leaving many feeling powerless to effect meaningful change.
Know Your Government, Know Your Role
Solution: Empower yourself by learning how your government works, understanding your role and rights as a citizen, and accessing unfiltered, archived information to make informed, impactful decisions.
The Accountability Gap in Politics
Problem: Politicians face accountability only during elections, leading to a lack of ongoing responsibility, broken promises, and a need for continuous, transparent oversight of their actions.
Political Performance Reviews
Solution: Poliforum enables citizens to rate and review politicians, ensuring continuous accountability by creating profiles for all public servants and encouraging informed feedback on how well they represent the public's interests, reminding leaders that they are closely monitored by their constituents and history.
Urgency Over Importance
Problem: Politicians often focus on re-election efforts and partisan issues rather than addressing important long-term challenges, lacking a clear understanding of their constituents' priorities and hindering progress on a unified national agenda.
Engage with Legislation
Solution: Poliforum provides citizens with easy, unbiased access to current legislation and proposed bills, while empowering them to engage directly with MPs, host community events, and apply social pressure to ensure their representatives act in the public's best interests.
Biased State Media
Problem: State-controlled media can corrupt the truth, highlighting the need for citizens to access clear, accurate information about political leaders to ensure informed and trustworthy voting decisions.
Stories
Solution: This platform enables verified citizens to publish important issues through dynamic, evolving stories that advance traditional journalism, complete with editors and contributors. This blog-style engagement offers critical discourse that prioritizes meaningful solutions over urgent distractions.
No Audience, No Voice
Problem: Many people, occupied with work and family, struggle to find the time and platform to engage in outdated political discussions, leaving their voices unheard.
Ideas
Solution: The Ideas section allows members to propose solutions for better governance, offering insights for politicians, gathering public feedback, and testing ideas, while also serving as a space to learn about politics, engage with others, and connect with people who share similar values across different parties and beliefs.
Misaligned Interests
Problem: Party leaders often prioritize narrow party interests over national concerns due to misaligned incentives, highlighting the need for citizens to harness collective power through a new platform that amplifies their voices, facilitates discussion, and promotes the proposal of new ideas.
Committees
Solution: Poliforum empowers citizens to connect, collaborate, and form committees with neighbors and fellow citizens to discuss, share ideas, and take action on improving their city, region, and country, while providing a common space for communities to align and organize events.
Why Poliforum?
So what are we going about it? Poliforum is a place for average citizens, who are normally too busy to participate in public life to get involved. Social media quickly became the main outlet for political discussion, here we are expanding features and benefits of the many platforms into one place and innovating on top of it. Here, verified citizens become powerful, active and engaged individuals playing their part in building a better and more accountable government that serves their interests as it should be.
The
Solution
Poliforum will provide all Canadians with a platform to make their voices heard, regardless of hot button topics or political affiliation. Citizens can rate elected officials based on their historical performance, while an all-in-one database offers comprehensive information on politicians, including their track record, affiliations, funding sources, and competencies. The platform also facilitates direct engagement with elected officials, allowing constituents to access public profiles, join town halls, organize community meetings, and initiate grassroots actions like meetups or protests.
Create an Account
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Get Verified
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Connect
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What's the Problem
Individuals often feel powerless as they watch their country's decisions being made with little transparency and no real input from them. Political parties focus on pleasing their voters, leaving the average citizen's voice crowded out and unheard. Ultimately, this system fails to address the critical issues facing individuals and the nation as a whole.