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You don't tell your MPs not to say things that most Canadian like and that will help you in the polls.
This is an admission that Candians don't support their neo-fascist policies and they they are trying to hide their true colours until they come to power.
Can't say I'm surprised. It's the CPC's inability to avoid promoting social conservatism that sunk their ship at the last election. Media continuing to ask questions about what they will support or not support, or bills they may advance is very important to ensure everyone is aware of what a good chunk of the CPC party is pushing for.
CPC loves fascism
Except when it's hillbillies and needles.
I see someone's dusted off the Harper playbook. Let's see if they can catch this pig to put lipstick on it.
So are the members representing the political party?
Or are members representing the constituents that elected them?
I thought we were running a democratic system of government here
So are the members representing the political party?
Yes, party members are quite clear that they will stand by the party above all else. A long, long, long time ago there was more leeway for party members to consider constituent perspectives, but unbridled use of the whip changed the landscape.
These days, if you are not voting for an independent, you're guaranteed to not have representation.
I thought we were running a democratic system of government here
We are. Being able to cede control to a dictatorial power is a democratic freedom.
These days, if you are not voting for an independent, you're guaranteed to not have representation.
This is a bullshit, false equivocation.
We are. Being able to cede control to a dictatorial power is a democratic freedom.
You mean ..... KNOWINGLY being able to cede control to a dictatorial power is a democratic freedom.
Coercing the public and doing things behind complicated legal and political jargon and systems that very few can understand is not an open democratic system.
Our democratic system isn't hard to understand at all. The people meet in the 'town square' with the hired representative to flesh out what the locals want to see, and then the representative carries the message to the central meeting place, to meet with all of the other representatives, where the product of those town square meetings are compiled together to achieve a final result. The activity in the central meeting place is recorded so that the people back home can audit that the representative is acting in good faith with respect to what happened in the town square.
It is not hard to see when the town halls are not happening. And when that is the case, you know you've ceded control to a dictatorial power. There is absolutely nothing out there to make anyone think that the representatives are mind readers. If you are not talking to them, you know it is impossible for them to represent you. That's just basic math.
Fair point and I agree ... part of the problem is the apathy of the public and ignorance of the masses
Is it a problem? I expect we like it this way. Especially because it leaves us feeling like we can say "That didn't go well and it's all [insert arbitrary figurehead]'s fault!"
The Canadian governments don't represent Canada. Canada only cares about the citizens of other nations. We're just a piggy bank to them.
LOL.. time to take your meds bud.
Every Canadian government big action and focus always seems to be on foreign affairs. Constant debates in Ottawa about what is happening around the world. Meanwhile Canadians are drowning in debt, housing costs, food costs, cost of living etc. But Canadian politicians don't give a shit about that, all they care about are scandals and foreign affairs.
I said take your meds, not go off on another rant about how you think the Government really works, when clearly you have no clue what Government does.
Looks like a little too much honestly leaked out around the Karen Convoy and Crybaby Blockades, and they want to keep their real feelings down until they're the ones who can wield the stick. I'm NOT interested in seeing their provincial bumbling around vaccines and disaster prep hit the federal scale.
Canadian Conservative Election Strategy. (With a one line foreword from Ont. Pmr. Douglas Ford):
Squinty McProudBoy can't seem to be able to control his base that he was so proud of. They keep saying things out loud that Squinty wanted to keep quiet until after an election. They are anti-choice anti decency, anti education and their entire platform changes daily depending on whom they are talking to.
Can't wait to see him herd all those cats for an entire year!
"Better to be thought a bigot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." or something like that.