I’ve lost all confidence in this government and no member of any party that is under scrutiny should be allowed to run under any party’s banner in the next election. A election that is long overdue to restore confidence in this country’s electoral system.
Thanks, Nate. Philippe Lagasse's argument seems reasonable to me. Stephanie Carvin says something similar. I would suggest that a pretty rapid response is vital - in a democracy, people need to be able to trust their institutions.
"All opposition party leaders should be appointed privy councillors if they aren’t already. They should then be briefed on the parliamentarians who may have been compromised and what they are alleged to have done. Based on this information, the party leaders could then decide what political precautions or sanctions are appropriate. The suspected parliamentarians could be taken off committees. They could be removed from the party caucus and be forced to sit as independents. They could then be barred from running under the party banner in the next election. These sanctions would be harder to manage in the Senate, given the grouping system, but we have recent examples of Senators who’ve been rendered black sheep in the upper house.
"What would these steps accomplish? The suspected parliamentarians would be known to the public and marginalized within the legislature. Importantly, though, they wouldn’t be publicly accused of anything. All we would know is that they’ve been sidelined. This would effectively end the political careers of the members of Parliament (MPs) among them. They’d be forever known as the MPs who did something troubling, even if they never end up being charged with a crime."
The US controls our nation and Israel meddles out in the open. I doubt that India and China are having any real effect compared to our supposed allies when it comes to political interference.
I’ve lost all confidence in this government and no member of any party that is under scrutiny should be allowed to run under any party’s banner in the next election. A election that is long overdue to restore confidence in this country’s electoral system.
Thanks, Nate. Philippe Lagasse's argument seems reasonable to me. Stephanie Carvin says something similar. I would suggest that a pretty rapid response is vital - in a democracy, people need to be able to trust their institutions.
"All opposition party leaders should be appointed privy councillors if they aren’t already. They should then be briefed on the parliamentarians who may have been compromised and what they are alleged to have done. Based on this information, the party leaders could then decide what political precautions or sanctions are appropriate. The suspected parliamentarians could be taken off committees. They could be removed from the party caucus and be forced to sit as independents. They could then be barred from running under the party banner in the next election. These sanctions would be harder to manage in the Senate, given the grouping system, but we have recent examples of Senators who’ve been rendered black sheep in the upper house.
"What would these steps accomplish? The suspected parliamentarians would be known to the public and marginalized within the legislature. Importantly, though, they wouldn’t be publicly accused of anything. All we would know is that they’ve been sidelined. This would effectively end the political careers of the members of Parliament (MPs) among them. They’d be forever known as the MPs who did something troubling, even if they never end up being charged with a crime."
The US controls our nation and Israel meddles out in the open. I doubt that India and China are having any real effect compared to our supposed allies when it comes to political interference.
I agree. I just don't trust most of our institutions or the people in them anymore. They've failed far too many times of late.