It
has been reported this morning that the news media barons have
decided that you shall not hear from all the political leaders in any
upcoming debate, but that Elizabeth May who had the support of over
900,000 voters right across Canada in the las…
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Democracy Under Fire: The Harper Legacy – Part 1
Introduction – The
next 5 weeks
Given the pre election
attack ad’s put out by the Harper regime we must assume that Mr
Harper believes that the past actions of a political leader dictate
the future actions of both the leader and the party. With tha…
Democracy Under Fire: Standing Up for Democracy
The following letter has been recently published
at http://plblack99.blogspot.com/
, I do not know Mr Black and can only say that I agree wholeheartedly
with him, we must indeed focus upon the attacks by the Harper regime
upon our democratic instituti…
Democracy Under Fire: More Contempt, More Secrecy, More Stalling
I have been trying hard
to NOT turn this site into an anti Harper Regime rant but it is very
difficult given that said regime is constantly providing more
ammunition to reinforce the position that they are indeed an
antidemocratic bunch that will igno…
Democracy Under Fire: March 5 2009
That is the date of the
first post here at Democracy Under Fire which means that I have now
been posing articles and opinions about our Democracy weekly for two
years now. The first article dealt with the “Public
Consultations on Canada’s Democrat…
Democracy Under Fire: James Travers RIP
We are saddened to hear of the passing
of James Travers columnist extraordinare, protector of democracy and
winner of a National Newspaper Award in 2009 for his column entitled:
“The
quiet unravelling of Canadian democracy.” His writings in
lar…
Democracy Under Fire: Information is Essential.
With a federal election
possibly in the offing in the near future I have been checking up on
the actions of my current member of parliament. In doing so I have
found two great sites that allow you to do just that far easier than
on the official govern…
Democracy Under Fire: Democracy in Peril?
“I am no fan of hyperbole. The notion
that democracy in a safe, successful, wealthy country like Canada,
constitutionally dedicated to “peace, order, and good
government,” could be “in peril” may strike some
readers as over the top.” So
sa…
Democracy Under Fire: A reminder.
It was just a little
over a year ago that the Conservative regime avoided accountability
in the House of Commons by suspending parliament for the second time
since coming to power. You will recall that just before the
parliamentary break the House req…
Democracy Under Fire: Democracy
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right. H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)
Continue readingDemocracy Under Fire: For Richer or for Poorer
It seems that there are
still some folks that cannot see the difference between taxpayer
funding of political partys by a per vote subsidy and taxpayer
funding by tax credits for individual donation, and the The
Jurist had a great breakdown of the nu…
Democracy Under Fire: On Political Advertising and Funding.
With the recent round
of ‘advertising’ by political partys and the character assassination
contained in many of them one has to wonder what, if anything they
have to do with our democratic process. When you add this
out-of-election-period spate of ‘ad…
Democracy Under Fire: Random Reading
Excerpts from articles
I have recently read – no further comment required!
Elizabeth
May – While Canadian political culture is not steeped in
vitriol and hatred, the trend lines are not good. We are
allowing increased levels of incivility to c…
Democracy Under Fire: MP’s – Why are we here?
Recently Steve
Paikin of TVO spoke to Allison Loat of Samara Canada
about their second report based upon MP exit interviews titled
Welcome
to Parliament: A Job With No Description . The
startling bit about this report is that the 65 former MPs
intervi…
Democracy Under Fire: Coalition a reality?
With the possibility of
an election once again (still?) in the news it was good to see that
Gov. Gen. David Johnston has been busy brushing up on constitutional
governments in case he is called upon to navigate a choppy political
crisis. That he
has s…