I actually like the Parliamentary system.You don't think that governmental reform is important? That should be an issue for debate in the upcoming elections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada
The GG sided with the PMs to altered (or tried to changed) the course of government after the PMs lost or about to lose the peers democratic votes. How is that democratic to you?
It is naive to think that Canada don't have lobbyists?
<--- Canadian and know lobbyists/lawyers that are working for large corporations/unions (it come down to who grease the lobbyists palms with more money). My former IT corporation boss were an ex Deputy Minister (he was ousted because he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar, and the government gave him a company/no bid contracts), and we work closely with the government (most of our contracts were government contracts), and you will be surprise what I have seen behind the parliament closed doors.
He's just trolling. If you ignore him, he'll go away.You keep ranting about how Anglicans have some special status and Canadians support this. Why so few Anglican leaders?
Writing in 1982, when the Charter came into force, constitutional scholar Peter Hogg noted that these words, being a preamble, could not really be applied by the courts but in theory could help to determine how other sections of the Charter should be read and applied. In this particular case, however, Hogg expressed doubt as to how much help this preamble could be, noting the term "rule of law" is "notoriously vague" and that the mention of the "supremacy of God" is contrary to section 2 of the Charter, which protects freedom of conscience, which Hogg felt would include a right to atheism.[1] In R. v. Morgentaler (1988), Justice Bertha Wilson defined freedom of conscience as protecting "conscientious beliefs which are not religiously motivated", and balanced the preamble out with the statement that "the values entrenched in the Charter are those which characterize a free and democratic society".
In considering the legal implications of the preamble in the 1999 case R. v. Sharpe, the British Columbia Court of Appeal referred to it as a "dead letter" which the BC justices had "no authority to breathe life" into.[2]
Wow, another race-based attack from Infohawk. Shocking! I don't care about South Asia. However, I think that your characterization is interesting since the British were defeated by third world civilians there.
I'm not upset at the concept of monarchy or religion. If people want to believe in fairy tales, that's fine. But when the government mandates a monarchy, then I'm not ok with it. People all over the world still worship various monarchies (Greek, French, Afghanistan, Nepal, etc.) while the governments don't officially recognize them.
If Nepal and Afghanistan can get rid of barbaric monarchy, shouldn't supposed developed countries be able to do the same?
Holy crap CanOWorms... you're just not in touch with reality are you?
Wow, another race-based attack from Infohawk. Shocking! I don't care about South Asia. However, I think that your characterization is interesting since the British were defeated by third world civilians there.
I'm not upset at the concept of monarchy or religion. If people want to believe in fairy tales, that's fine. But when the government mandates a monarchy, then I'm not ok with it. People all over the world still worship various monarchies (Greek, French, Afghanistan, Nepal, etc.) while the governments don't officially recognize them.
If Nepal and Afghanistan can get rid of barbaric monarchy, shouldn't supposed developed countries be able to do the same?
a reply from a resident of the only province who has yet to keep a premier in office unaffected by scandal...and yes sandorski, i was in bc during the vanderscam years, harcourts bingogate, glenn clarks folly, and of recent silver spoon gordie's fall from grace. do YOUR history, while the liberals under both chretien and martin were in power, our world credit rating was demoted 2 times, liberal scandals cost taxpayers untold millions in by-offs and promotion plate retirement shut-up money, but then living in the shadow of the jaded left coast of canada i would expect no different. Canada's power is on the prairies, not in BC and definitely no-longer in the have-not centre of the universe known as Ontario
I only fish in Canada. Pike and Walleye etc in ontario. Long as they don't take that away I'm cool with whomever. One thing I hated was last year they required a passport when I crossed at international falls. WTF? Get rid or that.
I only fish in Canada. Pike and Walleye etc in ontario. Long as they don't take that away I'm cool with whomever. One thing I hated was last year they required a passport when I crossed at international falls. WTF? Get rid or that.
I've met people from Quebec, and it's weird how so many of them really do care a lot about mundane things nobody else cares about. One guy I worked with was upset that Canadian money has a British monarch on the back side. I really didn't think anyone cares about things like that.The BQ is merely a bunch of clowns perpetually looking at the past and asking for a rematch of the battle on the Plains of Abraham (and make no mistake, they have no clue how to govern if QC qould ever succeed to separate)....
those so-called scandals pale in comparison to those by the liberals.
I loved the whining by Iggy about the Federal deficit. Hello Iggy, it was you that forced Harper to pass an excessively lucrative bailout package. Of course intelligent people had already predicted that this is what would happen. And it did.
I am not in favour of new jets.
I am in favour of harsher punishment for violent offenders. Let them serve the time they were sentenced to. No more credit deals for time already served. The only reason lefties don't like this is because criminals will be held accountable for their actions. Lefties don't like things such as personal responsibility. Instead they prefer the 'hug-a-thug' school of criminal justice.
As for a coalition of the idiots: no thanks. Most Canadians are opposed to a coalition; especially with the Bloq having the final say.
The Liberals need Ontario, and with Dalton screwing the Province, most people want nothing to do with the Liberals. Layton is on borrowed time as well. The rural vote is looking to punish the NDP for the Long Gun Registry vote.
All in all, I predict a most interesting election result.
The Cons have already screwed us royally with Bill C-32 - a Canadian version of the DMCA - and with their acceptance of the media oligopolies dictating what citizens can and cannot do with their internet connection.
We have lobbyists, but they do not have anywhere near the same influence that they do in the US.
It is democratic because that is the process we have set up. Eliminate the GG and the PM would just prorogue parliament on his own because he would then be head of state and could do it himself.
How's that? /Even Michael Geist considered C-32 "flawed but fixable" and of all of the people in power in recent memory, it's the Conservatives who have slapped down our telecom incumbents (and the CRTC) when rulings looked to impede competitiveness.
I've met people from Quebec, and it's weird how so many of them really do care a lot about mundane things nobody else cares about. One guy I worked with was upset that Canadian money has a British monarch on the back side. I really didn't think anyone cares about things like that.
I took CBC's online quiz and it said I should vote liberal this time. I guess I'll just do what it says. It can't be worse than letting Harper stay in power. Test below:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/votecompass/
I've met people from Quebec, and it's weird how so many of them really do care a lot about mundane things nobody else cares about. One guy I worked with was upset that Canadian money has a British monarch on the back side. I really didn't think anyone cares about things like that.
I took CBC's online quiz and it said I should vote liberal this time. I guess I'll just do what it says. It can't be worse than letting Harper stay in power. Test below:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/votecompass/