dm0720

A member since February 24, 2010 04:45

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Canadians believe PMO has too much power, House of Commons not enough power (Nanos Poll Completed February 8) (2010-02-24)

• It is really party power that has given the PMs office such power. Trudeau was the first to use whips to such an extent and Mulroney certainly followed suit,...
• Having taught University students for years, I have heard some horrible stroies about teacher's forcing their political agenda in both elementary and seconda...
• It is much easier for the sitting government party to bring down the leader, even when there is a majority - thus, it is within the parties ability to make t...
• When did the government ignore the Supreme Court? I want refereed references of that. Even with the Khadr case, the government took the suggestion of the Sup...
• The Trudeau and Mulroney governments were actually worse in my opinion than Chretien and Haprer - we just tend to note the current news more than the past. T...
• You failed to address the more important question - when did the government ignore the Supreme Court (references please)?
• Like you my three sons were subjected to required dinner and bed-time snack - no hockey or Tv could intefere. At family dinners, they talked of what was bein...
• An opinion which is NOT based on FACT makes no sense. That is why I asked for references. In teaching University, the decrease in the number of people who ...
• I prefer the way Canada does it to the way the USA does it. In Canada, the Canadian Bar Association does evaluate and recommend candidates for the Supreme Co...
• Nait: I am old enough to remember when proroguing Parliament was a regular thing done on a yearly basis. To me it seemed strange when Chretien left Parliamen...
• My only concern with the idea of term limits is that the PM would find it easier to load the court with judge's who are biased. Now, sometimes it takes twent...
• I agree. That is what I meant when I said that it was hard to stack the SCoC unless one is in power for a long long period - the Conservatives have been in p...
• Ontario dropped the departmentals over 40 years ago. I am glad to hear BC still has some. In Ontario, Harris wanted to decrease the bureaucracy at the scho...
• Certain mistakes are really horrible - effect and affect being one I saw in economics all the time. Some would like to blame the computer, twitter, and text ...
• I skipped Grade 7 in the 1950s and that was the grade where I was supposed to have learned all about particples, etc. I have always been aware that my writin...