benny

Al Qaeda is a loose network of people with nothing to lose.

When it comes to comparing a democracy with a monarchy, the question surrounding the frequency of leadership change has to be preceded by an understanding of the reasons motivating the emptying of the leadership position.

"Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it." (Luke 18:15-17)

That is voting electronically!

But Duceppe wants that Ottawa sends someone to be represented in a sovereign Quebec.

What do you know about political capital!?

Ultimately, the people will have to understand that job creation policies exist to allow politicians to abuse their power. While people are busy at work, they can be robbed more easily.

That argument works because the PQ doesn't need the Bloc to form the government in Quebec and to, then, press the political party who forms the government in Ottawa to respond to its demands.

Omar was and still is a member of a family.

I think you underestimate how subtly huge political capital can be gathered and lay dormant until an opportunity comes.

I see no problem with such complement, because governments like cars can be deadly.

What you deem stable may only be an infinite regress where a majority is resolute at undoing what the previous majority had itself, as resolutely, undone of the previous one.

I think Matthew 18:5 ("whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me") applies for Khadr.

I think that Canadian politics should be geared towards beating the Bloc Québécois. I find that one of the strongest argument to attack the Bloc is that it will never form a government. If I was to run as an independent in my riding, I would run against the Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe and I would not really be able to use this argument because of the independent status.

The NDP seems glad to be badly copied!

Khadr is like our lost son: http://www.wcg.org/lit/bible/gospels/lostson.htm

An obvious detail rather.

The economy and military have become very technologically advanced. To tackle recessions and wars, politicians have to know the latest technologies. Sticking to old electoral methods will not give us this kind of politicians.

A democratic political process requires from politicians that they sell their projects to the public.

"Symbolic president" and "symbolic monarch" are both oxymoron because a real person cannot be only symbolic. A real person will always capture our imagination in a deeper way than any surface deep symbol.

Electronic banking can only be a stepping stone to electronic voting because one can transfer his money to who he wants but one cannot transfer his one vote to anyone.

Once, the British Empire fooled the Middle East.

Bottom line: since the carbon tax is a product of some democratic process, it cannot be axed by someone indifferent to this process.

Here another response you will wrongly find moronic: the readability of topics requires that you stop doing that.

There is no contradiction there: both MPs elected via a geographical riding or MPs elected via a national list clearly has to represent a very specific part of the electorate. Only corrupt political parties choose their candidates based more on their loyalties to their parties than on their democratic representativeness. The conflict of interests that may exist for candidates in between serving a party and serving the population would not last long because only the people, not a political party, can make national heroes out of traitors.