Justin Trudeau's Senate No Better Than Communist China
In Canada, we like to think we're so much better than Communist China.
We like to think that whereas Canada is a democracy, China's government is non-democratic.
Well, what's so "democratic" about our Senate for starters.
Remember
when the newly elected Justin Trudeau had promised us a reformed and
"independent" Senate that would re-invigorate our parliamentary
democracy?
The
new Senators under Trudeau don't have political party labels. But
these new Senators most certainly have not rose to power from a
democratic system.
Here's how Trudeau's "new" Senate system works.
A
secretive committee branded the "Independent Senate Advisory Group"
selects from candidates who are then vetted in a secret process during
secret times.
Any
Canadian who tries to call the ISG about would-be Senators in their
province will be quickly rebuffed by an anonymous person on the telephone; and who will declare that they are not at liberty to disclose any
information about the process but that the outcome of the ISG's decision
will be posted on their website after Justin Trudeau has decided to
confirm the new Senate appointee.
Try emailing them, and you will get a curt reply with no name attached to it other than "Independent Senate Advisory Group".
My fellow Canadians, have you heard of such a farce of democracy?
And
if you decide to actually trace the affiliations of all the new
Senators, you will soon discover that they are all from the same
political in-breds and backroom manipulators who have ruled Canada from time immemorial.
Representatives
of marginalized communities are clearly not welcomed in Justin
Trudeau's Senate which springs from a process and "culture of elitism and authoritarianism" that's no better than
either Communist China or Africa's "banana republics".
Canada's Senate fails miserably when it comes to openness in the selection process, transparency, accountability and representation of Canadians who lack equitable representation in the House of Commons -- and that is supposedly central to the Senate's existence in the first place.
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