Will our Constitution Survive?
I think it is sad that the majority of Canadians don't understand the basic workings of their own government. This ignorance speaks to a major failure of the education systems…
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The Week That Was, Secrecy, Lies & Rising up
I may be totally depressed by the futility of trying to effect change using our first past the post voting system and the total lack of any indication that any…
The Harper Legacy – Series Suspended
Just like the harper regime I am going to break my promises and suspend dialog, my intention to document Harpers antidemocratic actions and words over the last few years is…
Is this Democracy? -Updated
“Harper’s strategy of refusing to take more than five questions a day from reporters amounts to a gross disservice to the public. Four of the permitted questions (generally two in…
The Harper Legacy – Part 2
The Rise to Power, In Opposition and Before 2004 – 2006 When the 38th parliament fell in Nov 2005 the mantra from Mr Harper was about bringing in an “Open…
Anti-democratic News Media
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…