CanadaRocks Posted May 26, 2004 Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 If a political party having a majority chose to take a direction that Canadians for some reason found abhorent, would Canadians simply have to endure until an election came at the end of 4 years? What if in the scenario described the majority party outlawed democracy etc? What laws supercede government control? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted May 26, 2004 Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 If a political party having a majority chose to take a direction that Canadians for some reason found abhorent, would Canadians simply have to endure until an election came at the end of 4 years You're in Hitler/Nazi 1933 territory. Would our GG object? Or, could a minority leader become majority PM? CanadaRocks, what would you do if PM PM sets up a Parliamentary Enquiry and arrests Opposition members so that he has a majority? What if PM Harper orders the RCMP to arrest NDP House members to get a Tory majority in the House? Canadians, endure? Do you understand democracy? CanadaRocks, what would you do? Stand in front of a tank as the guy in Beijing? Is it worth it? Capitalist Democracy and Corporate McDonalds, same deal? Really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argus Posted May 26, 2004 Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 If a political party having a majority chose to take a direction that Canadians for some reason found abhorent, would Canadians simply have to endure until an election came at the end of 4 years?What if in the scenario described the majority party outlawed democracy etc? What laws supercede government control? People have called this a dictatorship interupted by occasional referendums. The federal government has, if it wants to, absolute power. There are no effective restrictions if the majority in parliament decide to set up concentration camps or whatever. For example, even if they don't exempt new and anti-democratic laws from the Charter, which they can legally do, they appoint the Supreme Court. And the laws of Canada are whatever the SC says they are. Right now 6 of the 9 judges are Chretien appointees. If a long sitting PM decides to place toadies on the SC then the law will be whatever he says. The RCMP commisioner has been a toady since the Mulroney years, and isn't above violating the laws and constitution if his political master tells him to. Just look at APEC, or the harrassing of Francois Beaudoin by the RCMP. The head of the armed forces is another political today who does whatever he's told without question. So we really have nothing to protect us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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