Briefly and to the point, I fully agree with Steve’s blogpost that if the Liberals were smart, they’d be putting out a democratic reforms package and into their platform to deal with curtailing unilateral action by the Prime Minister as it deals with prorogation and other powers to do with the executive vs Parliament.
The Liberals don’t need to wait until their conference of thinkers in March for this – they need to already be working on it.
UPDATE 2 on Jan 12 @ 12:50 pm: Dr Dawg has a more general thought on reforms.
No prob. I was just being bitchy. 🙂
I want to thank Thor at Driving the Porcelain Bus for publishing my reply. I do invite suggestions for improvements to this declaration.
Thank you Thor.
http://drivingtheporcelainbus.blogspot.com/2010/01/skinny-dipper-declaration-of-democracy.html
Steve’s blogpost? Hey, what am I–chopped liver? 🙂
http://drdawgsblawg.blogspot.com/2010/01/frogs-in-pot.html
@Dr.Dawg, Sorry Dawg, I saw Steve’s first – no slight intended 🙂
My “Declaration of Democracy”:
Change the voting system to a proportional one;
Give Parliament the authority to prorogue;
Give Parliament the authority to select judges to the Supreme Court;
Give Parliament the authority to select new senators until a time comes to either reform or abolish the Senate;
Abolish the Governor-General’s position and either have the citizens of Canada elect a president or have one selected by Parliament.
Add reform of our electoral system to a system that produces the fairest representation to voters, and I’ll start giving the LPC a much closer look.