Canada's Lost Democracy

The people elected the Government of the day with about a third of the people supporting them. They as the other had a platform. People who went to the polls voted them to be the government for four years. In a democracy this means that even I accept them to rule our country for a period of time. When we voted we did not accept every plank in the platform to be accepted.

In Canada's democratic process every bill is to be placed before parliament and debated and voted on. The bill is to be passed on to the senate and then to the Govern General to become law. This government feels that because the people voted them as the government of the day that every plank should be considered acceptable to Canadians.

This government has run over the parliamentary procedures and has in my opinion been the worst , secret, undemocratic, untruthful and devastating to the Democratic process. They have been sited as not following the due process. They have lied to Parliament on numerous occasions and flaunt their power.

The last straw is this new so called budget. In our history the budget was a special day when the minister of finance laid out the financial course the country would follow for the coming year. This government does not wish to face parliament and debate the issues so it places its whole agenda in the budget. The environment will  loose all power as the minister and he alone will decide what is in the national interest. The criminal act will be altered and the immigration act will become so changed that we will become the laughing stock of the world. We were the most accepting country in the world and now we will become one of the worst. We need people to come to Canada and make a life as most of our residents only a short time ago did.

People in Canada had the right to free assembly and to protest what we found to be not in our favour. The new regulations will give the police the same rights to summary arrest that we as Canadians criticized Russia and other dictatorships for in only a few years past.

There was a time when a question was asked in parliament it was answered in a truthful manner. Today we not only do not get an answer but when we do you cannot trust the validity. Aircraft were to cost 15 billion....in reality they cost much more. MR MC Kay I am sorry to say is a Nova Scotian and his father Elmer was an honourable man....his son would be an embarrassment to his Dad with his untruthful statements to parliament.

Fifty million dollars for the G8 conference spent by the man who is now our financial leader on pork barrel programs for Parry Sound area. Shame is not the word to use with these people but when our Prime Minister supports them and laughs at parliament and carries on as nothing is wrong is truly shameful.

I have watched politics for 60 years and I have seen some bad things and some criminal actions by parliamentarians but never on the scale of this pack of Conservative government rat pack. The next few years could ruin our system  if it carries on. I am hoping for a revolt within the party to stop this attack on our democratic process would be welcome by many