Re: Canadian Friends....
Originally posted by lburou
Could you help me understand how your govt works during elections?
What I mean is....The US has an Electoral College that gives the sparsely populated States, in "fly over country" where our food is produced, an edge in our national elections. Does Canada have anything like that, or, is it a straight count of the votes?
Of Course, Senator Hillary promised New York that she would "fix" the electoral college situation....NOT! Were it not for the electoral College, Gore, God forbid, would be our President and we'd all be taking Arabic lessons by now....
I think you hit it on the head.Our government Doesn't work.
We've had too many governments,past and present that did whatever they wanted and to he** with the people's wishes.
The reason being is that we have no elected senate.
We still use a British style parliamentary system.
Funny how a country that is trying to break free from British influence,seems to want to hang on to it's style of government.
I guess the dictators[PM's] like the absolute power.
Want some examples?
Blame Bull-Roni[Brian Mulroney] for the Free Trade act.
He stacked the senate with his cronys to pass the bill.
He wasn't going to get the vote,so made up some new senators and put them in place.
He got his way.
Kyoto Proctocol?
Chretin *Ordered* his party to vote for it.
Know what happens if you don't?
Next election you ain't no Liberal.
Have fun you're branded and stand a very good chance of not getting that fat gov't pension.
So now we're stuck with a crud bill,based on flawed theory[not fact],designed to pull more money out of our pockets.
Somebody oughta' send our government a 3 thousand # message.
Oh mother dear?
