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Originally Posted by Delgar
This reminds me of the earlier times where the pc's had a massive majority with a tiny opposition-- for the first time, and the reports were often how, to try to show democracy was working, the pc's basically introduced the concept of having their own government members question their cabinet members in public, even though they first met in caucus in private.
This was novel at the time, and if I were to dig hard enough I think I could find the references because it was a big deal at the time, but it is particular to politics in Alberta.
It was then, and is now, a complete sham. Its the equivalent of having a police officer investigate his partner in a cop shooting a member of the public, but letting them meet beforehand to discuss the nuances.
You've posted long enough here, and intelligently, that I don't think you even believe your own post.
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Are you thinking of the reforms Klein made to caucus, replacing cabinet and caucus committees with "standing policy committees", consisting of backbenchers and cabinet members, plus non-MLAs? He did that in 1992 and 1997 to enhance his populist image, showing that the PCs weren't an imperial one-party rule. Made show that power was widely dispersed, but in reality was still centralized by the Klein dominated cabinet.