Comment 62217

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted April 13, 2011 at 19:53:44 in reply to Comment 62204

I never said the Government can't change. It does, all the time. We're jut not in control. Our parliamentary system, however, really hasn't changed all that much in over a century. The House of Commons was created as a way to minimize public input into the affairs of government, under the Senate and GG. And though the Governor General is now largely symbolic (the British Empire is gone, and today's empires are more subtle), and the Senate inactive, I'd still argue that the purpose it serves is to give us a very minimal form of token representation.

As for the specifics...what Ryan said. About FTPT at least. It's one of the least representative parliaments in the industrialized world (along with America's Electoral College). And our voter turnout suffers greatly as a result.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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