Bzdalderon

The science doesn't matter anyway, if it did, and this wasn't just about money and politics, countries like Canada wouldn't be charging a carbon tax, driving up prices for Canadians making them more poor which science says makes them worse polluters. Instead we would be shipping natural gas to India and China to phase out their coal consumption. We'd be using pipelines to cut carbons emissions from transportation vehicles. We would be using tax dollars to install solar on people's homes for them, reducing infrastructure maintenance and upgrade requirements for line and roads.

It's not about the science. It never was. That's why we are all doomed.

I love the parliamentary system, but done properly, there is proper accountability. For example, the King serving for life means your check and balance has no need for political affiliation. Unlike the GG who holds that power in Canada who is appointed on the recommendation of the PM, which no recommendation has never been rejected by a monarch in modern history, ergo according to Canadian law means the PM selects their boss (confirmed by Justice Crampton). They choose and fire the AG and their recommendations are always approved by convention in Canada (confirmed by the investigation into the Wilson Raybould case), and they are able to escape accountability by proroguing parliament until other problems take precedent to not be held accountable in the house (currently what we're seeing with the Trump nonsense overtaking the green slush fund debate that every single opposition party was working together to hold them accountable for for the first time in almost a decade or more, which started in the fall and is still unresolved half a year later).

In the UK, judges have ruled on PM decisions, there is a precedent there. The King holds actual power. The House of Lords are a functional upper house with actual authority.

It's not like that here. Our systems are mostly superficial at best, and retirement plans for plutocrats at worst.

I do stand corrected on Carneys net worth, which also raises another question of, if he's good with money and knows what he's doing, why isn't he more rich? If you only have that much money as an investment banker, and after leaving as CEO of one of the largest companies in Canada, you're lying about your money, have it hidden somewhere else, or you owe a ton of money to people and are flat out broke. All of those should scare you as much as the concept of him being a multibillionaire, which there are no credible sources on, but I'd be more inclined to believe.

A good investment banker has no money, and their money is in, investments, in offshore accounts, that we would never know about.

My two cents. Totally all over the place on that one, sorry for the written spew.

I think that applies everywhere tbh. I don't think the people have power anymore at all.

When billionaires are your leaders, you aren't in control period.

He is an unelected dictator, and the point is that our system is flawed. He was not voted in, he was elected by a select few Canadians to run a party that has avoided confidence votes for months meaning they've avoided accountability to Canadians which a Supreme Court justice confirmed as problematic.

Like to say that he represents Canadians would be an absolute lie. He has absolute power, and yet has not faced a general election.

The justice even confirmed that PMs have no accountability even internally, as we saw with the Wilson Raybould crisis, we scandal, green slush fund, etc.

This guy bought himself the PM seat, and is now PM. How is that in anyway democratic?

Also to bring up whataboutisms just proves you have no serious dispute.

Also proportional representation is actually ridiculously stupid. What makes more sense is a ranked ballot first past the post.

Look ma, no hands!

This... I know that my views aren't the majority, but man do I love this platform and how people actually will have a legit conversation about issues.

The people who are over emotional and stirring the pot don't get the same support here. Most just want the truth and to actually talk. I love this!

I watched a play that told me that fairies exist and people could fly, if you're basing your argument off plays and stoics, you may want to reevaluate the world.

You're under the belief that legitimacy exists. No one who controls another humans nature holds legitimate authority. Period. It's all power dynamics and power is achieved by force.

Laws do not need to be moral, logical, rational, or even reasonable. Most laws are made out of rage or political will.

International law is made out of the latter two; and enforced only by the winning agent of a state on state conflict. Anything else is political sabre rattling.

Even most national laws are all teeth no bite, and exist only for the perception of control and order.

If police can't enforce laws, and you have an immoral populace, you have chaos. If police can't enforce laws with force and violence, it degrades into tyranny as the people retake control with violence.

The world revolves around control and violence. Laws, judges, white wigs and gowns are all a perception of control in a world of savages. Anyone who thinks otherwise is sitting in a world of privilege.

Might is right. If you doubt me, ask how many war crimes the United States has been charged with, Russia, etc.. then look up the number of people killed by the Nazis vs the communists. Totally off topic, but if you doubt that, and it's your first time, Patton was right, we should have kept going.

This is actually how it works in some places in Canada. It's a very effective system.