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Canada's democracy erodes.....
At a time when Arabs risk life and limb for political freedoms, Canadians seem largely apathetic about the erosion of their democracy.
On Friday, March 25, 2011, the minority Stephen Harper government fell on a confidence motion by a 156-145 vote. Speaking to the motion, Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff attacked the Harper government for disrespecting Canadian democracy and treating parliament with contempt.
The myth of Canada being dull is captured in the apocryphal story that in an international competition for the most boring news headline of the year, the winning entry was "Yet another worthy Canadian initiative".
Edmund Burke noted that all that was necessary for evil to triumph was for good men to do nothing. Canadians are certainly good and worthy folks, but they suffer an excess of civil obedience, politeness and lack of civic rage. These forms of complacency needs change that could be harnessed to combat political atrophy and erosion of their democracy.
The centralisation of power in the hands of the prime minister and political staffers - with the resulting diminution of the role and status of cabinet, parliaments and parliamentarians - is common to Anglo-Saxon democracies in Australia, Britain, Canada and the US, but the extent to which constitutional conventions, parliamentary etiquette and civil institutions of good governance have been worn away in Canada is cause for concern.
A minister told parliament she did not know who had altered a document that cut funding to a foreign aid group. Later, she admitted to ordering the changes, but did not know who had carried out the order. Lying to parliament, a cardinal sin of Westminster-style democracy, has now become a political tactic.
Following rulings by Speaker Peter Milliken, for the first time in Canadian history, the government and a minister have been found to be in contempt of parliament for withholding information and misleading the house.
The Harper-appointed Integrity Commissioner was so inept that she failed to uphold a single one of more than 200 whistle-blowing complaints. Forced out of office by the ensuing public outcry, she was awarded a $C500,000 severance package on condition that neither she nor the government talk about it. That is, a public servant paid by the taxpayer was financially gagged by yet more taxpayer money to stop taxpayers finding out what was going on.
When a foreign service officer blew the whistle on the Canadian military handing over detainees to Afghan security forces, in likely violation of international humanitarian law, the government tried to destroy him and refused to give documents to a parliamentary inquiry. The Speaker reminded Harper that the parliament controlled cabinet, not the other way round.
After the last elections, when the opposition parties were close to agreement on a coalition majority government, rather than face the house in a vote of confidence, Harper talked the governor-general into shuttering parliament for a month until he shored up his own support.
When the time came to choose a new governor-general, Harper opted for someone who had carefully drawn up terms of an inquiry commission to exclude the potentially most damaging aspects of a scandal involving former conservative prime minister, Brian Mulroney.
Four conservatives have been charged with exceeding campaign spending limits in the 2006 election that put Harper into power. A minister used public office and material to pursue party-political goals of courting ethnic vote banks for the conservatives.
Having come into office on campaign promises of greater transparency and accountability, Harper has silenced civil servants and diplomats, cynically published guidelines on how to disrupt hostile parliamentary committees, and suppressed research that contradicts conservative ideologically-driven policy, for example data that show crime rates to be falling.
Judges who rule against the pet causes of the government's ideological base are not immune to attacks from cabinet ministers.
Civil society groups that criticise any government policy or ideology risk loss of funding and hostile takeovers by boards stacked with pro-government ciphers.
Little wonder Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin describes the government's "arc of duplicity" as "remarkable to behold".
What remains unclear is whether this adds up to an indictment of Canadians' indifference to democratic rights being curtailed or of the opposition parties, which have failed to harness the silent majority's outrage.
As Canadians head for the polls in early May, it remains to be seen whether Liberal Party charges of the Harper government being obsessed with secrecy, control, spin and attack ads will resonate with voters...
Until then, Oh Canada, we pray with a cry from our hearts for thee.
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Rabbi Jew says zionist Israeli government and their regime must be totally eliminatedby 91177info16,856 views
We need to stop falling into the partisan nonsense - all parties are rotten to the core and show only contempt for the electorate.
Time to put the politician scum in the hot seat and force them to work for us. We need to prove to them that they cannot lie, cheat, swindle, or induce fear any more.
DIDofCanada 11 months ago
Democracy in Canada now means, electing the criminal of your choice.
rollsthepaul 11 months ago
Don't let them fool you / the Liberals are no different, they are destroying BC, spending us into the poor house. Cutting back on everything the ordinary folk needs.
"Bad Government Is A Social Disease". We need Radical changes ! Not just another go round fronm any traditional party. They have thrown a Party at our expense for far too long. People Stand Up / Walk like an Egypptian T-Shirts anyone. I can get you some, they are starting to appear out here.
KeepEmStraight 11 months ago
Maybe if the Bloody LAPDOG CBC along with the RESTof the MSM had SOME BALLS instead of SPOUTING the BULLSHIT, like what was DISPLAYED in this "Whole Lot Talk,BUT Little INSIGHT" into the GODDAMN CONtempt of PARLIAMENT,MAYBE CANADIANS Would CARE.
Bloody Mansbridge ATTENDED the Bilderberger Meetings Last June and WE HELP PAY the PRICK'S SALARY.
The Politicans ONLY Get AWAY with What the LAPDOG MSM CHOSES to IGNORE.
suzieq0452 11 months ago
Leadership / Opposition = Lions / Tigers / what we really need is a new zoo keeper, the beasts are getting out of control and biting off the hands of the people who feed them..
KeepEmStraight 11 months ago 2
@Psy0psAgent do you know Michael Tsarion? I have yet to watch the 2nd part but this man has done some research. It is not religion in itself it is the human bastardization of it as with all things. watch?v=hEQFx07jsmY
sunflowerofpeace 11 months ago
@Psy0psAgent Sad thing is it isn't Harper,it is anyone we vote in.And as I live in the oil&gas region of BC which is keeping most of the Canadian economy going at this point,I know very well how we have been sold out.By the time they are done raping this land it will be no better than the wastelands of the tarsands.We have moose coming into the city now and warnings on the radio.Nature has been so disrupted the animals are lost.I am not against development but this is unprecedented! ICC ? ok ty
sunflowerofpeace 11 months ago
@changethecurrent You are SO right and anyone who does a bit of research will see the the Jews have used the holocost as a weapon.Hitler had NOTHING on what the US and Israel have done in Iraq and Gaza.Some others that never seem to get mentioned are Gypsies,Lenin,Stahlin..it all centers on Hitler,who when he broke the Versaille Treaty was just left to Annex Austria and get his airforce in Chechoslovakia.They could have stopped him...The Jew card is used ALOT to silence any criticism.Sick of it.
sunflowerofpeace 11 months ago
@silharima saying anything against it was called antisemitic because of the holocaust. If you research the actual numbers of the holocaust you will see a little fact they never taught us in school and that more non Jew or gentiles died in the holocaust then Jews, yet know One stole these people any land for them to live on and round up the citizens and force them to live in terror like in the Gaza strip, For gods sakes it is like a giant concentration camp that has been going on for 60 years!
changethecurrent 11 months ago
@silharima Harper supports the Zionist Jews, Your father did not fight to liberate Jews nor did my uncles. They fought because they believed the threat of NAZI control. All nation involved in WW2 were bank rolled by the same banks. All banks collected on that debt after the war was over. Soon all nations realized like in all wars there were know winners Except the Zionist were well entrenched within Palestine land, few years later a Zionist state called Israel was born and anyone
changethecurrent 11 months ago
@Psy0psAgent Thanks - enjoyed the discussion. I tried to "vote up" for you, but it doesn't seem to be working.
I was an educator for years, but have become just a singer-poet with a camera hanging from my neck. Music and art can move hearts that nothing else will touch, and that's where I'm most comfortable now. I'm not politically minded, really, but this video was made by a friend and I always try to view and comment on what he has uploaded. We live only a few communities apart.
silharima 11 months ago
@silharima Bullshit...youtube has become the place for us to discuss the truth! No matter how ugly or offensive it may sound. The truth is the truth..if you don't like it, you are free not to read it.
ElectricPineapple79 11 months ago
@changethecurrent The original post to which I replied made no mention of Zionism. Nor did my response. I find it odd that you would raise this particular issue with me, since I didn't bring it up. You don't even know anything about me. But please do not underestimate my educational background. Ignorance of history is not one of my failings, although naturally I - as do all of us - have others. My father fought the Nazis; my husband's father died in a WWII prison camp. Enough said.
silharima 11 months ago
All of the politician are crooks we need a new party called the truth party and actually campaign on the message of 9/11 being a lie and on how they are doing Geo engineering experiments on the population. also How we as tax payers are paying for the elites to use us as mercenaries in there war and the population is being used like lab rats. we can't get drawn in to any other arguments about bullshit corruption we know its wide spread what are we going to do about it.
changethecurrent 11 months ago
@silharima Hating Zionist is not antisemitic, there are Jews that hate the Zionist just as much as the rest of us. Hating Zionist is the same as hating the Nazis, Actually I will clear this up for you Zionism = Nazism. I strongly suggest you research history and find out who originally started to settle Zionist in what use to be known as the country of Palestine. Please look up the Transfer Agreement that was wrote up during WW2 between the Zionist federation in Germany and the Nazi party. 1933
changethecurrent 11 months ago
@sunflowerofpeace Thank you. I have seen those as well. I find it disgusting. What Harper wont tell you is that he is working for a global government to sign away the entire nation. I do not agree with zionists pretending to be jews. This stuff goes deeper than most people imagine. What Harper also wont tell is that Canada signed the Rome Statute of the ICC on July 7 2000. Sending troops to this war violated 8 points of that Statute actually making anyone paying taxes complicit in war crimes.
Psy0psAgent 11 months ago
I watch this panel occasionally.As to the description in your vid,about the R&D not a big newsflash that Canada supports the propaganda of terrorism.From what I have seen of Gaza,Israel should be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity along with the US for what they have done in Iraq and Afghanistan.The UN is a joke and a world military organization of death and destruction.For these appointed people to protest this funding says all,the whole world is under some hypnosis,peace,bettina
sunflowerofpeace 11 months ago
@Psy0psAgent Canadians are so polite and civil ;D Indeed very informative from both of you.After watching a video today where before the invasion of Iraq a US speaker on Mar 18 and then Harper Mar 21 pretty much made the same speech to their governments on the threat of Iraq almost word for word.Makes me wonder if we have the same speech writers in the US and Canada...at worst the same agenda.Although all media is tainted the CBC still seems the most forthcoming compared to the rest. peace BC
sunflowerofpeace 11 months ago
@silharima Agreed, and thank you for the info on the Archbishop. Excellent reply btw. Thanks again. Sometimes I reply, not so much for the nature of the comment, but so that other readers may find this and educate themselves. With your help, I think we've done not a bad job. Cheers.
Psy0psAgent 11 months ago 2
All democracies fail and degrade into tyranny. History shows that. Those on the top dont care about democracy. Democracy is a concept for the peasant class.
Psy0psAgent 11 months ago
@Psy0psAgent Ok, that was a point or two rather than a question. I suppose the question would be how is it NOT prejudice to claim anyone is Anti whatever. Im willing to bet there will be no public discussion of the REAL science. I find it disgusting to cover up scientific discoveries that prove we existed far before 6,000 years ago to support an ancient religious belief. I personally feel that is a crime against humanity. It is dangerous and is the cause of needless wars.
Psy0psAgent 11 months ago
@silharima Just a question. I am not prejudiced. At all. I believe in science. I am not a religious psycho fanatic. I KNOW that All humans are related NO further than 50th cousin. Everywhere on earth. I think its just plain nuts to claim god said anyone was chosen. I think its nuts to claim earth is 6,000 years old. I think it is the MOST prejudice xenophobic trash for anyone to claim I am Goyim & not equal. That is REAL prejudice. To pull that card without explaining REAL science is a mindgame.
Psy0psAgent 11 months ago
@MrWizardWithin This is such an offensive post ... YouTube is becoming a forum for anti-Semitic nonsense.
silharima 11 months ago