Canadian Democracy is sick. It has been showing alarming symptoms
for some time now, they range from the inability of a large portion
of our MPs to speak out without first consulting the PMO and a
failure to listen to those with opposing or alternate opinions, to
totally ignoring the rules and conventions built up over years of
parliamentary debate and development, and a total lack of ethics and
honesty. A new
symptom appearing just this week is the removal
of independent and small party MP's right to intervene at the report stage of proposed legislation and at the Con convention the ruling
regime came out AGAINST
proportional representation and for 'riding
equality' whatever that means!
Other
symptoms include the starvation of many
government departments essential for the well being of the country,
environment & science, information services, parliamentary and
electoral watchdogs, etc etc whilst at the same time other less
essential departments such as the PMO and their advertising budget
are being well fed and becoming obese.
As with most sicknesses there are
those that are alarmed by the development and
try
to intervene and suggest some
possible remedy’s, those who are so
disconnected that they are unaware that the patent is sick, and those
who say its nothing to be alarmed about, the symptoms are
meaningless, ignore them there is nothing wrong. Some would have us
believe that the current affliction of the senate is part of the
sickness, and indeed it is, but the removal of that organ will not
stop the spread of the sickness for it has spread far too wide
within the body political to be cured by random amputation.
Only the removal of the cancerous tumor in the Prime Ministers
office will set us on the road to recovery but even then it may take
years to get back to good heath and in fact we may never recover all
that is lost, we may indeed not recognize our country even after the tumor is removed, democracy will be but a shadow of its former self
for years to come. We can only hope that the cancer is not terminal.
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