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- From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
- Subject: Re: Reform Party
- Message-ID: <schuck.722548753@sfu.ca>
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- Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <aidler.722412657@sanjuan> <1992Nov23.005655.8997@ee.ubc.ca> <1992Nov22.224410.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1992Nov23.041508.8561@csi.uottawa.ca>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:59:13 GMT
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- cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes:
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- >The Reform Party, in seeking ways of "balancing" the Central Canada
- >majority, is trying to sell reforms which are NOT democratic when
- >considered at the Federal level, but which seem "pretty good" in that
- >they would (at least in theory) give power to people that have been
- >traditionally under-represented.
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- >Unfortunately, the proposals are neither democratic nor "federal," EEE
- >being a good case in point.
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- A Triple E Senate is the very *essence* of federal democracy.
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- In the US the Senate is equal [ actually more equal in some instances]
- with the House of Representatives.
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- In Australia, the Senate is equal with the House of Commons.
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- In a *federal* democracy, their are two *equal* houses, one based on
- equality of the people, and one based on equality of the
- Provinces/States.
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- When Central Canadians say the Triple E Senate is *not* democratic and
- *not* federal, what they really mean is they are greedy assholes who
- have no intention of ever giving any real power to the other provinces.
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- That comes as no surprise to us in the West.
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