3491stargazer

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14 years ago @ Macleans.ca - The Short Parliament · 0 replies · +1 points

I also wonder about our so-called "democracy", but more about the work ethic of our government. After an election in Great Britain, The House of Commons typically meets the NEXT DAY to begin the new session, not three or four months down the road. It is as if the Brits understand that they were elected to actually run the country, not sit down with their winning colleagues to figure out what they might be able to get away with and what they can conveniently shuffle into a corner until action is absollutely required.
In the USA, the House and Senate both worked until close to Christmas Eve to try to pass legislation. And they don't take great long breaks from their jobs, either. Granted, many of their laws are so convoluted and subject to so much jerrymandering and lobbying that these things create massive bottlenecks, but they work through them, rather than proroguing the assemblies and waiting for the legislatures to expire.
I was once a supporter of Harper, because I was tired of the Liberal system of rewarding only the jurisdictions who voted their way. But even that was better than a government that doesn't want to sit at all, and would rather make policy from the Tory backrooms and present them as decrees with no debate. Isn't this what the French revolted against in 1789?