Canada's election reform bill an affront to democracy, says chief electoral officer

[Rangergxi]

[QUOTE=OogalaBoogal;43848582]Trudeau is just a figure head.[/QUOTE]

That decides almost everything in an election.

[OogalaBoogal]

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;43848626]That decides almost everything in an election.[/QUOTE]

Politicians (in optimal situations) should just be figureheads for their constituents.

[Zeke129]

[QUOTE=Aman;43847018]Not if this guy is gonna run.

[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/INC_2009_Justin_Trudeau.jpg/354px-INC_2009_Justin_Trudeau.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

You mean the guy who actually took steps towards senate reform, something Harper has been talking about but not doing for several years?

Yeah Trudeau is definitely just all flash and no substance, right

[Helix Snake]

First the voter ID laws in America and now this. Just small steps on the road to fascism.

[Taepodong-2]

I'm an NDP supporter but I'll probably be voting Liberal just to do my part to get Harper out. Not that it matters in Alberta though.

[Lirro]

[video=youtube;298Cw3_qGwE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=298Cw3_qGwE[/video]

Democracy will never fall!!

[DaCommie1]

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;43846220]Get the Queen to fly to Canada and liquidate everything[/QUOTE]

That'd be a real great way to have Harper get the public opinion behind the idea of removing the Queen from our constitution. There's a reason the Governor General doesn't say no to the PM.

[elix]

[QUOTE=DaCommie1;43852692]That'd be a real great way to have Harper get the public opinion behind the idea of removing the Queen from our constitution. There's a reason the Governor General doesn't say no to the PM.[/QUOTE]

Exactly. Want to trigger a constitutional crisis? Have the Crown throw the government out the window when it is not absolutely necessary.

If the CPC rams through a bunch of bills after this that essentially ban protest, freedom of expression, and opposition parties, à la Ukraine, the Governor-General would be justified in stepping in and restoring democratic order, but Canada has not slid into a fascist shithole yet, we just have a governing party that is doing things a large chunk of the population doesn't like.

There are actually a number of decent reforms in the bill being proposed, but they're being packaged with toxic changes. If the stuff about basically putting Elections Canada under house arrest gets taken out, I might actually support it.