It's time Canada started being a Nation. If it is as I understand it, their system is dreadful. Heavily slanted toward urban Provenances and, In my opinion out of date and not representing the people

The Parliament (like our Congress) is voted on by the people. The Provinces with the greatest population will have the greatest number of parliamentarians. The Parliament nominates the Prime Minister to head of government who is like our President but is not elected by the people but by the majority party of Parliament. The Prime Minister advises the Canadian Sovereign (which happens to be Queen Elizabeth of England). There is an upper house which is similar to our Senate. Instead of being elected by the people to represent their Province they selected by the Prime Minister to serve a life term in office or until they are 75. The number of Senators each province allowed is not a fixed number like our system (2 per state)but is allotted to each Province according to its population.

In Canada if a Party from an urban area gets into power. They will control not only the Parliament but the Prime Minister (the executive branch) and the upper house (Senate). The advantage is to the urban areas with the greater population who tend to be more liberal and wanting more freebees.

The self sufficient Canadian land owner we grew up loving is a vanishing breed and is increasingly becoming disenfranchised.

Last edited by pooch; 06/16/17 10:56 PM.