I’m confused. First you said you wanted to change the government now you are saying stability is a good thing.
So do you want to make big changes or not? If so, what would they be?
OK, turns out you’re correct; I had to look it up, I’m an American who lives close enough to receive Toronto stations on my car radio not a Canadian.
“As The King’s representative in Canada, the governor general has a number of responsibilities, one of the most important being to ensure that Canada always has a prime minister and a government in place that has the confidence of Parliament. The governor general’s other constitutional duties include: swearing into office the prime minister, Cabinet ministers and the chief justice of Canada; summoning, proroguing and dissolving Parliament; delivering the Speech from the Throne; granting Royal Assent to acts of Parliament; appointing members of the Privy Council, lieutenant governors and certain judges, on the advice of the prime minister; and signing into effect official documents, such as orders-in-council.
The Constitution Act (1867) places executive power in The King, in practice this power is exercised by the prime minister and his or her ministers. The governor general acts on the advice of the head of government but has the right to advise, encourage and warn. As such, the governor general can offer valued counsel to the prime minister. The governor general also holds certain reserve powers, thereby acting as a democratic safeguard in Canada.”
Mary Simon is the current governor general; she is an Inuk from Quebec.
Stability is a good thing; stagnation is a bad thing.
Changes I would like personally?
Elections closer to the German model, Health care closer to the Swedish model, dump the current second amendment in favor of only allowing long guns and no semi or fully auto (if you can’t bring it down with a bolt action you aren’t a hunter), mandatory service, … the list goes on but this is a bit off topic for this thread so …
And how does the German model work? I’m an old person, 70+, and I have an uncle who got an all expense paid European vacation when he was younger partly because of the German model.
Sort of convoluted honestly, and rife with corruption
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around November of 2016…
We as individuals as well as citizens have always been controlled. First our parents and families told us what we could and could not say. Then in schools we were told how we must act and what was permissible to say. If you served in the military you were told how to behave. At work you were told how you should act and what you could and couldn’t say.
In your society you are told what you can say and how to behave. And all these other people threaten you with punishments of one type or another if you don’t do what they demand of you. Some punishments are minor while other punishments are severe.
Now as a full experienced adult you look around you. At the people and institutions and corporations that have been telling you what you are allowed to say and do. And you have started to realize that for a large part all these people that have demanded of you things they said must be adhered to. Were themselves breaking all the rules they said you must follow on pain of punishment.
hypocrites! And as you get older you start to really become aware of these people.
And for those of you who support Private Companies rights over your own rights. And you believe their rhetoric. Designed to keep you controlled.
Remember when the Tobacco Industry Told you that smoking was not harmful to your health. Yes? But you still think that these companies are really looking out for your best interests? Really?
So, yeah keep supporting these puppet-masters who’s only interest is the mighty dollar even if harms everyone else. Keep being controlled.
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Certainly not in my store, we won’t put up with it. Free speech is meant for speaking out against the government, not for saying whatever you want on private property without consequences.
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These days if people are talking in a private bussiness as customers and the store manager tell them they must leave because he/she dosen’t like the conversation. It depends on what was being discussed. The manager can be served with a lawsuit or even an allegation of discrimination. It’s not that easy.
Oh, it is very easy actually. It’s their property, not yours. If you are being loud and disturbing other customers, you will be asked to leave the store. If you refuse, the police will be called.
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You are qualifying the situation. If no one is being loud or causing a disturbance just talking to their friends then no one can tell them to shut up. Or leave the business. That’s discrimination.
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Gotten censored and 3-day forum banned for saying “I am against hate of any kind”, cause apparently that was the wrong opinion to have, in regards to a specific Twitter-writer-female spewing hatred towards a certain color and gender.
So my totally unlikely vision.
The election of the Bundestag (parliament) in Germany, in American terms, would look something like this:
For the House of Representatives, each state would have the same number of representatives as they do now i.e., New York 26, Alabama 7, California 52, Texas 38, Wyoming 1, etc. Say you are in Texas, you get two votes one for any individual on the ballet and one for a party on the ballot. The individual with the most votes from the first vote goes to DC. The other 37 seats for Texas are given proportionally to all parties who got at least 5% to assign (the first vote winner having used up one slot for their party).
For the Senate we keep our current system (we are not Germany we keep a bicameral system) so states with small populations and rural communities retain some power.
President by popular vote, no electoral college, not tied to the dominate legislative party like both Germany and the UK.
Convoluted yes, who has a system that isn’t?
Going for fair rather than simple, I could be wrong but that is my focus.
I will be 72 next month, my wife is older.
That’s never going to happen. It’s the same issue that you have with the Senate, the smaller states are never going to give up their advantage.
Also the United States government is a federation not a national government. The idea of a federation is that the federal government shares power with the states. The electoral college is based on the “Great Compromise” in which the House is the “people’s House” and the Senate is the state’s house. The electoral college is a combination of both systems.
Sounds like you have an issue with capitalism.
Welcome to the worker’s struggle comrade.
Lol you can’t name the law broken because there wasn’t one. In that case. By your example Twitter should have ceased to exist the second leftist activists started making death threats against Trump, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Petersen et al. Or when you had Democratic members of congress using the platform to incite the BLM riots and harassing members of the Republican party and society at large by “getting in their faces, at their homes, where they work, and where tbey hang out.”
You can talk down to me all you like, but your intelectual dishonesty makes it eash to brush off. Final point, before Parlor was taken off it was showi.g more active use and new sign ups than twitter, nearly three to one. It was squashed before it got too big. Not because of any messaging doe by anyone. If that were the case Twittwr would be long gone.
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You’re the one that said a law was broken, and I asked you to specify which law. I’m not gonna bother reading past this sentence since you are very confused.
I’d be perfectly OK with it if “I could care less” was censored.
It breaks my brain how people say something which implies they care, when they’re trying to convey that they really don’t care.
I’m just here waiting for this post to be flagged. /eats popcorn