Who should be more powerful: the PM or gov-gen?
koizumi @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:56 am
Which do you feel should be granted more powers to run this country: the Prime Minister or the Governor General?
mtbr @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:41 am
koizumi koizumi:
Which do you feel should be granted more powers to run this country: the Prime Minister or the Governor General?
I'll bet if its a Liberal PM you'll say the PM but if its a conservative you'll say it's the GG
Bacardi4206 @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:45 am
Monarchy is a joke, why isn't it dead yet?
sandorski @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:05 pm
PM, no question.
Mustang1 @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:22 pm
What a dumb question...the PM obviously. And let me guess - koizumi will run away instead of actually participating.
romanP @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:19 pm
Why is this even a question?
Benoit @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:24 pm
The common will of the people should be more powerful.
Zipperfish @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:36 pm
Benoit Benoit:
The common will of the people should be more powerful.
But what about Godel's Incompleteness Theorem?
Blue_Nose @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:40 pm
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
Benoit Benoit:
The common will of the people should be more powerful.
But what about Godel's Incompleteness Theorem?
You forgot the link to Wikipedia.
Zipperfish @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:43 pm
Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
Benoit Benoit:
The common will of the people should be more powerful.
But what about Godel's Incompleteness Theorem?
You forgot the link to Wikipedia.
Wikipedia's articel on Gdel's Incompleteness Theorem is Incomplete.
Wiki
ridenrain @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:33 pm
mtbr mtbr:
koizumi koizumi:
Which do you feel should be granted more powers to run this country: the Prime Minister or the Governor General?
I'll bet if its a Liberal PM you'll say the PM but if its a conservative you'll say it's the GG
Exactly.
And what about the huge and frightening powers that the PMO has. My god. The PM is the sun king and we are all in danger of....
Of course when Jeffrey Simpson wrote The Friendly Dictatorship back in 2001, he used Chretien as the example, but I'm sure some Liberal hack will come along, re-write it with Harper and it will then become a national emergency.
Mustang1 @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:40 pm
As per usual all some can do here is turn into a partisan parrot party. I guess when you know squat about politics, that's all you can muster 
Anyho...getting back to the topic, the interesting thing is that the nature of the Prime Minster is constitutionally ambiguous. If one looked at the Constitution literally - ignoring historical convention and the Charter - than the Gov. General is the most powerful political position in the land.
kenmore @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:46 pm
The power of the PM should be limited... look what we have in Ottawa now... an autocrat.. if he had absolute power we would be looking at beheading people again.. little lord harper would make so many things illegal you wouldn't be able to fart!
ridenrain @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:54 pm
Surely someone as well read as you couldn't have missed this news clip:
$1:
Gomery: Canada on road to 'one-man government'
Sponsorship inquiry boss worried about concentration of power in PMO
Kathryn May, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The judge who headed the sponsorship inquiry that helped usher the Conservatives into power says Canada is heading to "one-man government" unless radical steps are taken to rebalance power concentrated in the hands of the prime minister.
Sponsorship inquiry boss worried about concentration of power in PMO
Kathryn May, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The judge who headed the sponsorship inquiry that helped usher the Conservatives into power says Canada is heading to "one-man government" unless radical steps are taken to rebalance power concentrated in the hands of the prime minister.
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/new ... 3d41afb568
Seriously.. who could have guessed..
Benoit @ Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:10 pm
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
Benoit Benoit:
The common will of the people should be more powerful.
But what about Godel's Incompleteness Theorem?
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