Trust in our Institutions

[JLB50]

So, both the CPC and LPC are being influenced by the CCP?

It was necessary for the CCP to sabotage O’Toole’s leadership. Unlike Trudeau as well as previous CPC leaders, O’Toole seemed to have a greater vision of Canada as a truly independent country. I’m confident he would have stood up to China and its meddling in our affairs and built up our defence capabilities.

 

[OldSolduer]

No sure if any of our readers reside in Pickering, ON. They may, or may not, find this of interest.

In today's news,

Pickering city council moving meetings online due to threats, mayor says​

MSN

I looked at that. This has happened in Manitoba as well.

 

[FSTO]

So, both the CPC and LPC are being influenced by the CCP?

Gotta cover all the bases right?

 

[OldSolduer]

So, both the CPC and LPC are being influenced by the CCP?

Why not? Clinically speaking it’s a good idea

 

[The Bread Guy]

So, both the CPC and LPC are being influenced by the CCP?

If one takes a truly long term view, those are the two “usual suspect” parties that tend to gain power in
Canada, so why not both? Also, if part of the play is just to stir the pot, playing both sides off of each other fits, too.

 

[mariomike]

I looked at that. This has happened in Manitoba as well.

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) passed a motion asking for federal assistance to protect municipal politicians.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/faced-with-hate-municipal-politicians-want-help-turning-down-the-temperature-1.7267646

Global News

5 Jan., 2025

How RCMP is responding to ‘unprecedented’ threats against MPs, officials​

How RCMP is responding to ‘unprecedented’ threats against MPs, officials - National | Globalnews.ca

The head of the RCMP unit in charge of protecting politicians says the force is ready for a looming federal election but that threats and requests for protection are increasing.

globalnews.ca

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[RangerRay]

A two part essay by Paul Wells on what’s wrong and what needs fixing in Politics in Ottawa. A must read for anyone interested in the Ottawa sausage and why things are so dysfunctional, regardless who the government is.

What an election won't fix

Part I: Let's keep being citizens the day after the election, too

paulwells.substack.com

The leader in your mirror

Part 2: For a return of responsibility to our public life

paulwells.substack.com

 

[RangerRay]

As good a place as any. Mods, feel free to move a more appropriate thread.

Andrew Coyne is coming out with a book on Canada’s democratic deficiencies.

Unfortunately, it’s behind a paywall.

Opinion: Canada has the form of democracy, but not the substance

Our parliamentary system is in a state of disrepair so advanced that it has lost much of its relevance

www.theglobeandmail.com

Put simply, we do not live in the system we think we do. We have the form of a democracy but not the substance; the rituals but not the reality. Because we preserve the forms and rituals, people find it hard to accept how far the substance has been eaten away. But at some point the facts become unanswerable. Far from a democratic example to the world, our parliamentary system is in a state of advanced disrepair – so advanced it is debatable whether it should still be called a democracy.

The plain truth is that none of the institutions of our democracy work as intended, or as we imagine they do, or as they used to, or as they do elsewhere. Some are best described as having ceased to work at all. The rot has set in at every level, from the corrupt and chaotic process by which the parties choose their candidates and leaders, to the sordid fraternity hazings that are modern election campaigns, to the random distortions in representation imposed by our electoral system, to the many dysfunctions of our increasingly irrelevant House of Commons, to the almost total concentration of power in the office of the prime minister. While any one of these on its own might not trouble us unduly, their accumulated weight should.

The effect has been to invert all of the institutional relationships characteristic of a properly functioning parliamentary democracy. The government does not answer to the Commons so much as the Commons answers to the government; party leaders are not accountable to the members of Parliament in their caucus, but rather caucus is accountable to the leader; the prime minister is no longer a member of Cabinet so much as Cabinet has become an extension of the prime minister. And so on

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Lots of big business and the like, donate to both parties. Hedging their bets. However, one side or the other, usually receives a larger portion. Likely dependant on their chances of forming government.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

What did she say?

284K views · 1K reactions | She seems so happy about it. | Awakening Canada

She seems so happy about it..

www.facebook.com

 

[Greenleaf]

"Un Canada fort" in bad french