A rose by any other name would still smell like methyl ethyl enthyl carbonol. Bob Ed Goertzen wrote: > To the Editor of The Toronto Star. 2000/1/12 > : > Your lead editorial Jan 11th exemplifies the extent to which Parliamentary > Democracy has been corrupted in Canada. A media depiction has become the > myth and the myth the practice. > Your reference to the Reform Party as "Canada's Official Opposition" > invites a gross public misunderstanding of what democracy is and how should > work. > > In a Parliamentary Democracy power flows from the people to the legislature > which is the supreme power. The Cabinet is the Executive Branch of the > legislature and serves with the permission and at the pleasure of the > legislature. > > The loyal (not official) opposition is comprised of all the elected members > of the legislature who are not sworn as members of the Cabinet. > > Designating a political party as the "Official Opposition" calls into being > and sanctifies the concept of a "Governing Party" and confuses the MP's > about their correct role as represenatives of their electors and not > incorrectly as representives of political parties. > > When a system has been corrupted, knowing and willing participants must by > default be painted with the same brush. I am surprised at the exceptionally > large numbers of the electorate who still participate in this sham > democracy. Surprised to the same extent as the media pretends to be at the > number of electors who ignore the process. > > Ed Goertzen > > Peace and goodwill > > Ed Goertzen, > Oshawa, > L1G 2S2, > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > SIGNATURE - "Subsidiarity", Defined in the Papal encyclical > "Quadragisemo Anno", as > quoted in "The Age of Paradox" by Charles Handy". "It is an injustice, a > grave evil and a disturbance of right order for a large and higher > organization to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed > efficiently by smaller, lower bodies...". > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
