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You confuse faith with systems vs faith with politicians. And no I don’t have much faith in a lot of private citizens. Or it could be they know how unwieldy it is.

That does not mean that the system is geared for that. It can happen but it is not systemic as opposed to what you propose. Pluralities govern. Our system isn’t perfect. But the alternatives are worse.

Or the instances of big corporations paying for signatures to get what they want or overturn legislation. Too many risks for a system to be based on this.

Sure. Thankfully that isn’t our system either.

That isn’t what HT was proposing though. One offs may or can be appropriate. As a system? No. The issues are many. Like I said, the tyranny of the majority becomes the norm. It basically can skip checks and balances and overrule basic tenets. Democracy can come in many forms. Not all...

That leads to tyranny of the majority. The risk of harm to the minority is too high in that system. It only works in smaller more homogeneous groups.

Correct

Or the moment they are asked to piss in a cup or fill out a security questionnaire…

For sure, so they need to address the training system as well. The RCMP faces the same issue.

It will be over several years.

Yes but it will be at the expense of other departments and agencies.

Seems that a lot of people normally on his side aren’t thrilled. That isn’t the normal chorus of critics. If you think Trudeau should be in jail then yes, I’m sure it’s fine. But the accusation especially about the senior leadership of the RCMP bordered on slander. If you are trying to...

Would you like a different source for this? Just let me know, Melissa Lantsman was on damage control mode with David Cochrane. Internal memo to all members to say nice things about the RCMP. There also seems to be some discontent with some caucus members about all of this. Cracks. Not...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-mps-defend-poilievre-rcmp-9.6948899 Not going away.

And yet they accelerate it through their recidivist policies. The power of influence of those 325 million though has been eroded and keeps eroding mostly through self inflicted wounds. Don’t look at it as 1.4 billion vs 325 million. It’s more like 1.2 Billion for the western world and then...

Yep. Going to see more of that. The decline continues sadly.

Could be. Attrition alone isn’t going to be enough.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/pm-carney-expected-to-reveal-thinking-behind-coming-federal-budget-in-speech-today/ Looking for buy in I think.

OAS is not going away. It just needs some tweaks as to what threshold qualifies. Just because a small percentage of slackers might get it doesn’t mean you cut the whole things and impoverish everyone else.