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Liberal Leadership

Posted on March 24, 2013 | Leave a comment

liberallogo-620x405It’s to bad Marc Garneau dropped out of the Liberal leadership race. He was one of three candidates I was considering being my first choice on the ballot. Under Federalist Party rules all candidates in a leadership race have a 4-year term on the Federal council. The runner up becomes deputy leader with an 8-year term on the Federal council. Without multiplicity there is no democracy. It should be built right into a political party’s rules to encourage multiple candidates for any elected office. In the Federalist Party if you run and become one of the 6 candidates on the ballot at least you get the consolation prize of membership on the Federal council and if you’re the runner up your #2 in the leadership. Barry

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Harper’s Government

Posted on March 4, 2013 | Leave a comment

Someone needs to tell Darth Stevious that its not his government but the government of Canada! Did my taxes and here’s what I found on the Revenue Canada’s webpage on the government website.

Harper Government’s Low-Tax Plan Benefits Canadian Families

actions taken by the Harper Government since 2006.

As a direct result of the Harper Government’s strong record

the Harper Government has reduced the GST

taken by the Harper Government since 2006.

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/nwsrm/rlss/2013/m02/nr130218-eng.html

Barry Aulis

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By-elections

Posted on October 22, 2012 | 1 comment

The political monarch (PM) waves his hand and we now have three By-elections. Here’s another way of doing it that is independent of the Prime Minister. There would be four set election dates, which would be three months apart on which you would hold any by-elections. For example the set election dates could be the first Monday in the months of March, June, September, and December. When a Commons seat goes vacant the Speaker of the House informs the Chief Electoral Officer of the vacancy and the By-election would be on the second set election date after the seat goes vacant. For the ridings of Durham and Victoria the second election date after their vacancy would be the first Monday in December. For the riding of Calgary-center that went vacant when Lee Richardson resigned on May 30 the second election date after would have been the first Monday in September. All by-elections would be 3 to 6 months after a seat goes vacant. When the Partisan kiddies fight over the election date toy you take it away from them! Barry.

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Prorogation of Parliament

Posted on October 20, 2012 | Leave a comment

Here we go again with another political monarch (PM) proroguing Parliament at their pleasure. Some 400 years ago the British cut the head off a king who insisted on the royal authority over the prerogatives of Parliament. That prerogative can be summed up in a simple statement of Parliament and only Parliament can affect Parliament. As the December constitutional crisis of 2008 proved that the Prime Minister can get rid of Parliament but Parliament can’t get rid of the Prime Minister. It’s like having a situation with a Corporation where if the board of directors fires the CEO it automatically brings about a general shareholders meeting. You can’t fire someone without losing your own job simultaneously. Parliament should only be prorogued on a Motion of Prorogation. This motion to be presented by either the government or opposition House leader and passed by an absolute two-thirds majority. For the House of Commons its 206 and for the Ontario Assembly 72. Parliament would then be prorogued till the fifth Monday afterwards. Personally I would vote once in a Parliament to prorogue and give the government what amounts to a time out. But this is done by a vote in the House or Assembly and not the royal signature upon the advice of the Prime Minister of the day. Barry.

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Quebec Election

Posted on September 4, 2012 | Leave a comment

The big day is here. It’s Quebec’s general election for 2012. Me and my neighbor got to our polling station about five minutes before it opened. Already about a dozen people were there and more were coming as we went in. So hopefully we will have a good voter turnout for this election. Here is an alternate process for the determination of the formation of a government.

Custom and precedence

After each General election you would have the following sequence of events. The fourth Monday after each election you would have the swearing in of the elected members of the National Assembly. That Tuesday the Assembly would elect it’s Speaker. On Wednesday the Speaker would ask the Assembly on whom the lieutenant governor should ask to form the Government. On Thursday the top four candidates are asked to form a government by the lieutenant governor subject to the approval of the National Assembly. On Friday morning the Speaker puts to the National Assembly the question which of these Councils has the confidence of the Assembly to form the government of the province of Québec? The National Assembly then votes. The Speaker then swears in the third and fourth place councils as alternate Councils in the Assembly. Friday afternoon the National Assembly votes a second time on the two remaining councils. The winner becomes the government and the loser becomes the official opposition. The following Sunday the losing Council is sworn in as the Council of Opposition and the winning Council as the Council of Ministers for the government of Québec.

This process starts 28 days after each election and ends 34 days after the election with the swearing in of the Opposition and Quebec’s Government. For this General election the process would begin on Monday, October 1 with the swearing in on Sunday, October 7. Of course the negotiations leading up to Swearing In week would already settle the make-up of the Council-designates and almost certainly the outcome of the vote of confidence in the National Assembly.

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