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Plus, spending on maintinence now will save big bucks on replacement later. BC is going to have their Hydro bills double over the next 10 years because successive governments kept the rates too low to do infrastrucure upgrades so now they have to be done or we will be suffering brown-outs. (A different artcle quoted 30% increase in 3 years.)

The problem here and in the states is that no politician wants torisk his or his party's re-election, so is reluctant to do the necessary but unpopular things. Thus the cost keeps being offloaded on future generations. Longer terms in office, or all politicians have a one term term limit maybe?

No, but more and more they are being used as housing for the mentally ill.

And there aren't in the UK? Wrong.

What, where is Canada's Constitution? Show me where i can look at it. I know where I can see the US constitution, and a whole bunch of other countries, but where is ours?

Yes, oh wise one. [/sarcasm]

And again, Canada does not have a constitution. A great weakness, IMHO.

We don't have a written constitution. We have the BNA Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But there is a whole hell of a lot that isn't covered, and that's where the SC has free reign.

I's sooner rest my good life on some solid ground rather than nebulous "precedent" that any activist judge can interpret however he/she wishes.

Theoretically, that can happen here too, Harper isn't elected as PM, he becomes PM because he is the guy that gets the most votes when parliament meets for the first time after an election. Or maybe it's the plurality of votes. Anyway, his caucus could kick his ass out any time. It's just the way our power structures have emerged, it won't happen, either here or in the UK.

I honestly don't understand what you are saying. Harper is the choice of the CPC as a leader. What's his face is the choice of the governing coalition in the UK. How is this different?

As I said in another thread, we have the BNA Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and that is it. We do not have a "constitution" as such. The other super intellectual posters told me that our constitution is some kind of etherial wonderkinder kind of thing that we all suck up to. Fools.

But that's how it is here too. Just somehow, starting with Trudeau, and intensified by Chretien and evey worse with Harper, they managed to shut the MP's up. How here and not in the UK? Not sure how the Trudeau - Chretien dudes did.

But the Canadian Constitution is sort of out there in the nether regions, according to the constitutional experts on this forum.

I was a member of the Albera separation party. When we succeed, you will suffer.

I have heard many people say that. But how? I don't get it. They suck gazillions of dollars from the rest of the country, in spite of their incredible mineral and hydroelectric wealth. But their corruption puts all that in the Mafia's hands and all the other provinces have to GIVE them more and more. I'm really willing to try my luck without them. I honestly believe it is too late for me. The tax liability will be with me till I die, but maybe if we get rid of them, my grandkids will have a better future.

And the UK is better how?

As I said previously, I am sort of a drive-by shooter tonight, got family stuff happening, but yes, I think so but don't have the time to dig it up right now. I'll get back to you.

I have long wished for another referendum, and have sworn a solem oath that if one comes, I will go to Quebec to lobby for a yes vote.

In my time, since Trudeau, the PM has taken more and more power and emasculated the MP's. And that is wrong. (In this instance, I'm not soley blaming Trudeau, each PM since has increased this.) So we need some system to give some power back to the individual ridings, and myself, or the guy/girl who represents me. Help me come up with a workable system that could do that.

And what's your opinion of a "representative" rather than first past the post system? I don't remember your stance on that one.

I'm all in favour of a chamber of "sober second thought", but what is a reasonable way of achieving it. Needing to be elected makes people pander to the dumb voter, and/or the rich company/union. So what method can we use to put a damper on the common's power without being dumb. The more I think about it, the more I have respect for the US system in many, but not all ways. And definitely, we need the PM to be separate from the ruling party. The worst thing we have, started by Trudeau, and enhansed by each PM since, very much including Harper, is the subjugation of MP's and concentration of power with the PM. That is the biggest weakness of our current system, IMHO.

Sort of 50/50. The blithering idiots want it, so the money grubbing media provide it. Both to blame.

I totally blame the MSM. They don't want reasoned debate, which takes more than 15 seconds. They want soundbites of one MP insulting another. That is modern news. Untill we ban all those asses, we got what we got.

Or maybe because he is a F**king liar?