Government Reform For a Better Canada
The way Canada's Federal Government runs today, is not as effective or efficient as most Canadians would like. Changes have to be made to let Canada's government work better and run more in favor of the people. A number of areas that might be changed within Canada's democracy are: Senate reform, representation by population, free votes in the House of Commons, the institution of Members of Parliament recall and fixed election dates. These changes should take place in the near future. Without these changes Canada's future together as a nation will be ultimately distrusted.The prime minister appoints senators to the Senate, instead of them being elected into office by the voters of Canada. This is how Canadian government has been formed and how it has worked for the last hundred years; this is no longer the most democratic form of government for Canada. The Senate is chosen by the Prime minister of Canada and therefor is biased, by this *patronage appointment. Canada's Senate should be elected, to return democratic principals to the citizens of Canada. To be equal and democratic, senators must be elected by their constituents in their provinces. If the senate was elected it would become fair, each province having the same
The government in charge should have the choice of going against its own bills if they are non beneficial to the country. This would be called a free vote. Right now if the Liberal government was to go and vote against one of its own bills, the government would be overthrown. This makes no sense because that means that every bill that the head party conjures up has to be voted for, or else the party is thrown out of power. This is not a written rule or anything it has been around only for the last 130 years and should be forgotten. ***The defeat of a government measure in the House of Commons should not automatically mean the defeat of the government. Defeat of a government motion should be followed by a vote of the people in parliament of a vote on non-confidence, that will either lead to self resignation or the disappearing of the house in a general election. In the Canadian House of Commons, the lower house is the first to debate bills to be passed. All Members of Parliament have been elected into the house. The number of Members of Parliament is determined ,roughly, by the amount of people in each province. Each Member of Parliament should be representative of about **70,000 voters of his or her riding. This should be equal for each province, but it is not. Prince Edward Island has a total population of 134,557. All of the four ridings in Prince Edward Island have around 23,000 voters each, yet about three ridings in British Columbia have more than 100,000 voters each. Is this fair? A small province like P.E.I. having 4 representatives in the h
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