Canada’s Broken Parliamentary System

How quickly our elected representatives forget the source of their power: we mere citizens.  I often joke that Members of Parliament are not our representatives to Ottawa but Ottawa’s representatives to us.  It’s a joke, a cruel one at best, and it’s on us. “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the [...]

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