Economic and technological trends intrude on our lives aggressively. Even as the need for social support intensifies, trust evaporates in a corrosive haze of globalized instability. The pace and confusion of this accelerating world leave little time for civil engagement, for the opportunity to become involved in day to day interpersonal relations outside immediate family and colleagues. The overworked and unemployed have no time or chance to pitch in. The worst effects of the changing world order seem all too obvious.
People coalesce more frequently around fear and anger in negative common causes.
Collaboration Canada was conceived with such a purpose in mind. Communication is usually a good thing, but co-operation requires that we break free from silent solitude. Endlessly stating and restating of positions is also fruitless. And to establish or renew a community you must labour together towards a common purpose. Nowhere has this proven truer than along the vast imaginative frontier of cyberspace that now borders us on all sides.