The Republic: Canada's brave new step.
Channel: WinstonSmith
Date: 2017-03-22

We are currently facing a very good reason to re-constitute Canada the current motion before Parliament M-103. If our MPs were accountable to us "we the people" this motion would have died quietly without a peep from anyone.....Instead team LIBERAL IS FOISTING its vision on the rest of us.
 


Further arguments for a republic

Whether we realize it or not, we don't like one another very much.
Quebecers are always threatening to leave, the west is banging on the door saying "let us in" and now they're in they're saying let us out.

The only time we know there are provinces on the east coast, is when we meet someone from Newfoundland and are confused  or fascinated by their language that is somewhere between Irish and Scottish or when there is an election.

I largely lay the blame for this on Ottawa which in it's toe in the sand aw shucks narcissism has claimed all the power in the country and lorded it over us

The truth be told our problems stem from our countries size and the fact that we have a parliamentary democracy. Indeed it is more efficient than say a representative democracy but it gave rise to the power of the party. 

Your representative is beholding to his party that they first had to get the permission of the party leader to wear the particular brand and then are completely bound to the fiats and edicts of the party. once elected it is because of your party affiliation that determines whether you get funding for your offices and research for legislation. 

Again once elected unless you have lickspittaled your way into cabinet or some parliamentary job you are voting fodder a back bencher who votes the way they are told lest they get the boot from caucus.

 In Canada politics is a team sport. All parties have whips who are tasked with the job of maintaining party dicipline under our party system they are actually redundant and just another perk job for the shoe shiners. I know that PMs use them to do their dirty work lest a back bencher get the idea that they should actually represent the people that voted for them; the whip is the arm twister.

Here in Canada we vote party not person! so we could have a real turd of a Canadidate in our riding but because he has the correct brand many people just hold their noses and vote for them anyway. 

The real problem though is the stinking cheese bits of legislation that get passed because of the majority government and the party "rules" and that's just The House of Commons. 

We have a retirement home for party faithful styled the Senate the socialist want to be rid of it because they are never appointed to the upper chamber of sober second thought. Properly constructed it could serve to filter bad law or legislation. 

Lastly we have the ultimate of Dinosaurs the office of the Governor General. It forms the top branch of the executive branch of government.  Still appointed  by the queen and it is this office that convenes parliament and disolves parliament and it is the GG that asks the leader of the majority seat holding party to form the government. and when the term of the government is up the PM asks the GG to drop the writ calling an election.

This is why we need change. Our politicians have no will nor ability to reform the Government. They all swore oaths of loyalty to the Queen. Not to us not to our Constitution.