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Recall Legislation, if you can get enough voters interested enough to get off their ass.We have created a political class but not a very good ruling class. Too many perks and not enough limitations.
Recall Legislation, if you can get enough voters interested enough to get off their ass.We have created a political class but not a very good ruling class. Too many perks and not enough limitations.
Like a school teacher?Perhaps the problem is we have created a political class. How many "commoners" are in the HOC anymore ?
Yes, I know what is meant by commoner in this term. And while they are commoners in the regal sense they are arguably now members of an aristocracy and no longer representative of the Common Canadian.
Like a school teacher?
Votes are worth less in urban areas - the number of voters per seat is materially lower in rural areas than urban. The classic example is PEI, where each riding could sit (individually) in the SkyDome at a Blue Jays game and have thousands of empty seats.Votes are worth more in Toronto/Vancouver... and those are the 2 main jumping off points for Chinese-Canadians.
Votes are worth less in urban areas - the number of voters per seat is materially lower in rural areas than urban. The classic example is PEI, where each riding could sit (individually) in the SkyDome at a Blue Jays game and have thousands of empty seats.
Urban areas dominate because they hold the majority of Canada's population.
Term limits. No one should spend their whole lives in politics doing nothing but that.Recall Legislation, if you can get enough voters interested enough to get off their ass.
Term limits. No one should spend their whole lives in politics doing nothing but that.
Make it attractive but not attractive enough to become complacent and a perpetual incumbent.
Votes are worth more in Toronto/Vancouver...
Votes are worth less in urban areas -
There are interesting tables, both of every riding, and summary by province, at Population of Canadian federal ridings - Wikipedia
This never gets old.
I’m in the Maritimes (aka District 12). We know we don’t matter (except for potatoes and lobster for The Capital).
It's not just the Maritimes. Anywhere outside of Montreal and Toronto knows you're but a drop in the bucket. Ontario is a sea of Blue until you hit Whitby.We matter for the first bit of elections night. The Que and Ont start to roll in and we're forgotten.
If martimers ever learned how little the country thinks of them they'd be shocked.
I've been in workplaces in which the HR zealots were essentially administrative burdens, and drove out good people.
There's also arguments to be made about duplication of effort and prodding provinces into actually doing things for their residents.This country is design so the federal takes care or, international affair, military, border, postal and transport. It is not a sexy mandate, that’s why they always jump into the provincial realm. Kindergarten and dental insurance are 1000% provincial jurisdictions. In the mean time, nothing on is own jurisdictions.
It’s a a point where a lot of people are confused in each roles. When everything is respected, that’s funny how you don’t ear about autonomy/independence or other similar actions.
Term limits. No one should spend their whole lives in politics doing nothing but that.
Make it attractive but not attractive enough to become complacent and a perpetual incumbent.
That's a very loose statement. How do you know that what they do with their money does not achieve a greater net economic "success" than the conscription of that money for one purpose?the very richest block of the population and of corporate entities could certainly pay [more/their] taxes without harming the economic success of Canada overall.
Because healthcare, defence, education, transportation infrastructure, cultural and communications infrastructure (both theatres and telecommunications are good things to have), all utilities, food/water/natural resource security and preservation, judicial/dispute-resolution/protective apparatus, and emergency services of all kinds are vital, desperately boring, and in many cases hard (or hazardous: armies, police) to frame or address in a capitalistic/corporate mode, especially outside a very small or personal footprint, and by their nature screamingly inefficient (armed forces, disaster response anything, the more specialized side of healthcare, etc.).That's a very loose statement. How do you know that what they do with their money does not achieve a greater net economic "success" than the conscription of that money for one purpose?
I'm not saying it's impossible either or I that was not looking. We are still in a justice based society, you have to prove guilty in front of a court/board of inquiry or something. In the mean time, stupid and poor judgment.I don't believe anyone in these positions is that stupid or naive. In fact it's naive to think this cascade of crap that is bringing this country down is all just because a handful of people are inept and naive themselves.
But don't even have a look? Just wait for overwhelming evidence to land in your lap?
Probably a good idea not to include things which are, can be, or have been non-public at some point.Because healthcare, defence, education, transportation infrastructure, cultural and communications infrastructure (both theatres and telecommunications are good things to have), all utilities, food/water/natural resource security and preservation, judicial/dispute-resolution/protective apparatus, and emergency services of all kinds are vital, desperately boring, and in many cases hard (or hazardous: armies, police) to frame or address in a capitalistic/corporate mode, especially outside a very small or personal footprint, and by their nature screamingly inefficient (armed forces, disaster response anything, the more specialized side of healthcare, etc.).