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- From: yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee)
- Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics,soc.culture.canada
- Subject: Re: The Canadian Problem - How can it be fixed?
- Message-ID: <XNXFwB4w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 05:24:44 MST
- References: <1992Dec26.160216.23383@julian.uwo.ca>
- Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
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- - In article <Bzv7K4.3Io@mach1.wlu.ca> dmccrea6@mach1.wlu.ca (doug mccready F)
- - >
- - >blocks of MPs who vote against their own party. Trudeau and Mulroney have
- - >taken party discipline too far - because CAnada is a country of
- - >hero-worshippers (we look for the leader we want, not the team we want). I
- -
- - Look what happened in what, Alberta? A new party leader was selected by
- - some means (I don't know how), and he replaced the old party leader, who was
- - the Premier of the province at the time. The point is that the team stayed i
- - power while the captain was changed.
-
- hold on here!! The Alberta Conservatives are on the decline. I have heard
- that in the city of Edmonton that there are some provincial PC associations
- with less than 10 members. Here they opened up there vote for shall we say
- obscure reason. I can't wait to see the the PC membership for 1993. Ha!! Ha!!
- Ha!!
- -
- - >agree that removing party from parliament to such a great extent is
- - >desirable but cannot be done completely because there are some benefits to
- - >party too. Free votes, regular leadership reviews, etc. ought to be
- - >permitted
- -
- - That's the biggest crock. "Free votes OUGHT to be permitted ..."
- - If we want to be seriously committed to democracy, that should read
- - "Free votes MUST be permitted". What's the point of having an elected
- - representative of a constituency if that elected person can't, or doesn't,
- - or won't represent that constituency?
- -
- Time for Parliament to see more free votes and less party disicpline, a
- current Liberal tennant.
-
- Dave Shariff Yadallee (B. Sc. (Econ/Math) (U of Alberta 1990) )
- (yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca, userLIBE@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca)
- God Save the Queen, God Bless us All! Remember! Jesus Saves!!
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