From Canada’s beginning in 1867, Canadian school children received haphazard instruction in the institutions of our system of government.
Provincial school boards fearful of parents alarmed their children were being “politically brainwashed” by “leftist” teachers mostly avoided the topic while the ever-more pervasive mass media continued to bathe successive generations of young Canadians daily in the very different U.S. presidential-congressional universe.
So now, for many Canadians, it’s “Parliament? Snarliament? Who Knows? Who Cares?”
Canada has ended up with the worst of both worlds — a prime minister who over the decades has gathered up U.S. presidential powers but who cannot be stopped by a separate and independent U.S. Congress and is thus free to smash parliamentary democracy and all its institutions at will.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has leaped upon this gaping hole in the public’s grasp of their governmental institutions like a cat on a mouse. Since taking office, he has strode like a bull in a china shop through our enfeebled parliament and confused electorate, overturning virtually every precedent and standard of parliamentary democracy.
He’s made himself into Canada’s King Louis XIV, the Sun King. He summons — and prorogues – parliament whenever it suits his political agenda: ie. whenever he’s in political trouble.
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http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2013/10/28/nows-the-time-for-all-good-citizens-to-come-to-the-aid-of-their-democracy/#.Um5oM6vD_mJ
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