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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Lessons learned are well and good, but the suggestion that Canada is at risk of becoming like the USA in this regard (or even at greater risk due to our parliamentary system) is hyperbolic and alarmist to the point of silliness.
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Our system of parliamentary democracy clearly puts us at greater risk. It eliminates the check and balance of the legislative branch. It’s one less barrier to ignore norms
My argument wasn’t that we are as bad as the US now. It was that our system is just as easy to corrupt by politicians ignoring norms and that given the actions of the Trudeau government and Kenny government ignoring Norms we are about 8 years behind the US on the road.
Politicians are learning from the US that you can shoot someone in Times Square and face no consequence from your supporters. Trudeaus response of deny and obstruct to SNC and We is directly out of this playbook. Are we at the point where a party would try to overturn election results, obviously not, but next election we are going to see significant cries about voters fraud and people rigging the system.