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https://open.substack.com/pub/blendrnews/p/the-death-of-democracy-in-canada?
“From the outside, Canada still looks like a functioning democracy. Elections are held on schedule, Parliament convenes, and parties campaign against one another. The trouble is that almost none of it functions as advertised.
Today, Canada’s “democracy” operates as a procedural husk — a system that retains every formal structure of democratic governance being repurposed to serve the political class rather than the public it claims to represent.
Over the past five years, the governing party has called elections to bury active investigations into national security breaches and financial corruption. Parliament sat for just sixteen percent of the available days while MPs collected full salaries and per diems for the other eighty-four.
More than 121,000 ballots went uncounted in a single federal election. A riding was decided by one vote after an Elections Canada employee printed the wrong postal code on dozens...
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A comment rom the Western Standard article
FreedomHawk 37 mins ago
The judiciary has strayed far beyond its proper constitutional boundaries. Courts exist to interpret and enforce the laws as written by elected legislatures—not to rewrite them, invent new constraints, or substitute judicial preferences for the democratic will of the people.
In this instance, a judge appears to have inserted themselves into a core democratic process: Alberta citizens exercising their right under provincial law to petition for a referendum on the province's future. By attempting to block or invalidate such citizen-driven initiatives on the grounds that they might implicate Treaty rights, the court risks transforming itself from neutral arbiter into active participant in shaping political outcomes. This isn't enforcement of existing law; it's an overreach that effectively lets unelected judges veto the ...