IT'S OUR TURN!!!! We go to the polls October 14...RESULTS #25

[lizbud]

They can dissolve Parliament whenever they feel like it?

[Puckstop31]

Yes. Parlimentary Government is much different than ours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Canada

[Grace]

Yes. Parlimentary Government is much different than ours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Canada

Thanks for the link. I've just skimmed through it - need to go back and really read.

Senators for life - sort of like Robert Byrd and Strom Thurmond

It seems there are no specific number of years a member of the House can serve between elections?

I can think of times where this system of government would have been beneficial in this country.

[lizbud]

I can think of times where this system of government would have been beneficial in this country.

Does this mean, if the US adopted their government style, we could have
avoided the last 8 years?

[Grace]

Does this mean, if the US adopted their government style, we could have
avoided the last 8 years?

Very possibly. Darn - wouldn't that have been nice

[Catty1]

Hmmm...maybe Canada should take over the US so you can have the benefits?



BTW - Gilles Duceppe, leader of the Bloc Quebecois (pronounce the c's like k's and you'll be close enough) leads a party that fields candidates in Quebec ONLY. Don't ask me how we got federal representation of one province...makes my head hurt!

STILL want our system?

[Catty1]

Ohhhhhh.....Canada.....I dunno....

K. 5 political parties.
The leaders' debates are coming up.
General rule is that each party must have one seat in Parliament.

Each one does. The Green Party has one that arrived just before the election was called...he wasn't elected, exactly - I think he traded with a Liberal candidate? But anyway, it was fair, and there we are.

SO

The major TV networks - Global, CBC, CTV and another one that eludes me - they decide that Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party (see photos above) cannot participate in the leaders' debate. Three of the other leaders opposed it (what were THEY scared of? )

Excuse me. As I mentioned above, the Parti Quebecois has voters that are only in Quebec. Yet they form part of the Federal Government.

YET - The GREEN Party has candidates all over Canada, and had a great increase in numbers in the last election.

She's taking them to court! GO LIZ!

This is just SILLY - the old boys' club is alive and well.