Seems that a solid chunk of people don't have a faint clue what's going on, and it terrifies them. So let's address that: the notion that the country will "implode" or that this all amounts to an anti-democratic "power-grab" is nothing more than ignorance. It's just a self-reinforcing, self-defeating fear.
Canadian constitutional conventions have been described as less-than-democratic, but the fact is we have a popular majority with this coalition (44% Lib-NDP; vs. 37.6 for Cons. And if we include the other parties, that's 54% including Bloc; 61% including Greens). That's a popular majority essentially shedding their pre-packaged ideologies in favour of working together to achieve a common aim - when our government refused to do that very same thing.
The fact that the NDP and the Liberals do not have the majority of seats despite their popular vote share only highlights the sad inadequacy of our first-past-the-post system. And while I'm quite in favour of significant reforms, that doesn't negate the fact that this new arrangement is quite unequivocally democratic.
In Canada, we DO NOT vote for a Prime Minister the way Americans vote for a President. We vote for individual members of parliament.
This is democratic.
Labels: canada, conservative doublespeak, constitutional crisis, political change
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