John Robson: Canadians can’t be expected to understand the government if their own party leaders don’t - News Summed Up

John Robson: Canadians can’t be expected to understand the government if their own party leaders don’t


America’s Founders including Washington and Jefferson loathed political parties, also not mentioned in their Constitution. RelatedIt apparently eludes May that her position as head of the Green Party is a big help to voters in determining what she stands for. Instead, as though she had invented non-partisanship from this odd perch, she says “In Westminster parliamentary democracy, political parties are not an essential ingredient. I have often said that if I were to invent democracy from scratch, I would not have invented political parties at all. Rather than party members choosing a leader, “the House of Commons should instead vote to elect a prime minister after each election.


Source: National Post June 08, 2017 15:22 UTC



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