Canada the 9th best Democracy?!?

Started by Shayne, November 23, 2006, 06:21:52 PM

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Shayne

November 23, 2006, 06:21:52 PM
I gotta say....i just don't know.  I got a heck of a lot of beefs with our system (the first being that it would seem most people vote based upon their location as opposed to the party's actual platform).

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1543571.ece

Tom

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November 23, 2006, 06:40:37 PM
Canada isn't technically a Democracy. Neither is the US for that matter. ;)
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Mr. Analog

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November 24, 2006, 01:21:51 AM
Quote from: Tom on November 23, 2006, 06:40:37 PM
Canada isn't technically a Democracy. Neither is the US for that matter. ;)

WRONG! Canada is a Parliamentary Democracy, if you had to pass a test to become a citizen you'd fail.
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Adams

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November 24, 2006, 08:31:29 AM
Well, Technically Tom was right... it is not just a democracy but a Parliamentary Democracy.

So ergo both of you can be right. :P
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Thorin

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November 24, 2006, 11:25:56 AM
What I find interesting is that Canada is listed as both a Constitutional Monarchy yet at the same time a Parliamentary Democracy.  How can we consider ourselves a democracy (meaning rule by the people) when all of the laws we want to pass must be approved by the Queen or her rightful representative?  Yes, the Queen or her representative commonly agrees with and allows most laws to be passed, but there *have* been a couple of instances in the past ten years where the Governor General refused for a while to allow a bill to become a law and there was nothing our government could legally do to force him.
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Mr. Analog

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November 24, 2006, 11:41:02 AM
I think every democracy in the world today has somebody that features as an executive veto. I can't think of one that doesn't.
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Thorin

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November 24, 2006, 11:42:51 AM
Yes, but in some cases the persons who have a veto are elected themselves.  Whereas Her Majesty The Queen is not.
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Mr. Analog

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November 24, 2006, 01:09:41 PM
Quote from: Thorin on November 24, 2006, 11:42:51 AM
Yes, but in some cases the persons who have a veto are elected themselves.  Whereas Her Majesty The Queen is not.

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Darren Dirt

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November 30, 2006, 09:42:35 PM
Sorta-on-topic: neat series of video shorts on Youtube: "F'N Democracy" ;D

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=mnoelio

Reminds me of the style of the Colbert Report, the Daily Show, etc... but suprisingly how perfeshinally dun it iz.

e.g. "Episode 2 Part 1"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Sn_jaoMkQ

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December 04, 2006, 11:32:00 AM
"In a democracy, government officials are thus invested with powers which the people who empowered them are not allowed to exercise."
- Michael van Notten, "From Nation-State to Stateless Nation: The Somali Experience", section "Defects Of Democracy"
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