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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 231717"><p>Canadian sketch artist J.J McCulloch's take on the fiasco:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.filibustercartoons.com/comics/20081130.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>One of the things my Government & Politics lecturer once told me about politics is that "what you read as theory will most likely be happening before your very eyes!" This is true. </p><p></p><p>Canada has a similar system to that of the UK: an Anglo-Saxon constitutional monarchy and so as a result, the situations tend to be similar. What you are seeing now however is a demented compromise of the Continental European system of government by collective argument (or, as normal people call it, Coalition) and the Anglo-Saxon system which was never even designed to hold organised political parties!</p><p></p><p>In this situation, the representative of the Crown must decide whether to back the existing government, dissolve Parliament and call fresh elections or ask the Opposition to form a government. </p><p></p><p>In this case, it is important to point out (as people do tend to get confused) that this whole process is effectively out of the hands of the electorate. </p><p></p><p>By voting, you are voting to choose who send to Ottowa to represent your Constituency/Riding. You are not voting for a new PM, you are not voting for a new government. You are voting for a new Parliament.</p><p></p><p>The prerogative to choose a government is the Crown and the Crown's alone. Thus, Ms Jean (who is frankly woefully inadequate for the job no matter how one eyed you look at it) has one of the toughest decisions of her career to make in the next few weeks.</p><p></p><p>Convention states (both in Canada and the UK) that she should either dissolve Parliament and call fresh elections or ask the Opposition to form a government if Parliament votes that it has lost confidence in the existing executive. This, like most convention, is open to extreme interpretation. While the letter of the law (or convention) seems clear cut, she has a lot of room for maneuver and will probably use this to suspend Parliament until budget day at least to get the important stuff out of the way before the blood letting begins.</p><p></p><p>My view? Phyrric victory for both sides. All this means is that the <em>highy</em> unscrupulous Liberal party will damage their image amongst Canadians by being perceived to win power on a technicality away from any standard Democratic methods like, say, voting. The Tories however will be undoubtedly weakened. They may well go back to the nation again but any chance of them increasing their share in Parliament are damaged. </p><p></p><p>Yet more minority government for Canada I'm afraid but its all awfully fascinating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 231717"] Canadian sketch artist J.J McCulloch's take on the fiasco: [img]http://www.filibustercartoons.com/comics/20081130.gif[/img] One of the things my Government & Politics lecturer once told me about politics is that "what you read as theory will most likely be happening before your very eyes!" This is true. Canada has a similar system to that of the UK: an Anglo-Saxon constitutional monarchy and so as a result, the situations tend to be similar. What you are seeing now however is a demented compromise of the Continental European system of government by collective argument (or, as normal people call it, Coalition) and the Anglo-Saxon system which was never even designed to hold organised political parties! In this situation, the representative of the Crown must decide whether to back the existing government, dissolve Parliament and call fresh elections or ask the Opposition to form a government. In this case, it is important to point out (as people do tend to get confused) that this whole process is effectively out of the hands of the electorate. By voting, you are voting to choose who send to Ottowa to represent your Constituency/Riding. You are not voting for a new PM, you are not voting for a new government. You are voting for a new Parliament. The prerogative to choose a government is the Crown and the Crown's alone. Thus, Ms Jean (who is frankly woefully inadequate for the job no matter how one eyed you look at it) has one of the toughest decisions of her career to make in the next few weeks. Convention states (both in Canada and the UK) that she should either dissolve Parliament and call fresh elections or ask the Opposition to form a government if Parliament votes that it has lost confidence in the existing executive. This, like most convention, is open to extreme interpretation. While the letter of the law (or convention) seems clear cut, she has a lot of room for maneuver and will probably use this to suspend Parliament until budget day at least to get the important stuff out of the way before the blood letting begins. My view? Phyrric victory for both sides. All this means is that the [i]highy[/i] unscrupulous Liberal party will damage their image amongst Canadians by being perceived to win power on a technicality away from any standard Democratic methods like, say, voting. The Tories however will be undoubtedly weakened. They may well go back to the nation again but any chance of them increasing their share in Parliament are damaged. Yet more minority government for Canada I'm afraid but its all awfully fascinating. [/QUOTE]
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