describe the power sharing arrangement made in canada...
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adians are never satisfied with the performance of Parliament, but the reasons for dissatisfaction vary from time to time. It may be hard to remember now, but only a few years ago people were pre-occupied with the excesses of majority government. Jeffrey Simpson captured the mood in his 2001 book, The Friendly Dictatorship. When Paul Martin replaced Jean Chrétien as Liberal leader and prime minister, observers expected Martin’s “juggernaut,” as Susan Delacourt called it, to sweep to an unprecedented victory in the next election, further enhancing the power of the prime minister and rendering Parliament even more insignificant, even though Martin himself had pledged to redress what he termed the “democratic deficit.”
Stephen Harper, however, solved that set of problems when he became leader of the Canadian Alliance, merged it with the Progressive Conservatives and, against all previous predictions, reduced the Liberals to a minority government in 2004 before winning the 2006 election and forming his own minority government. Now everyone is concerned about the parliamentary problems of minority government. Who says there is no progress?
Indeed, the parliamentary problems of minority government are both real and serious. The Conservative government continues to bring in legislation but often can’t move it forward in normal fashion through committee discussion and votes on the floor of the House. Instead of just marshalling a voting majority, it has to resort to all sorts of tactical expedients: threatening to call an election, bundling other measures together with the budget, playing the opposition parties off against each other or luring dissident elements within opposition parties to defy their own leadership.
Meanwhile the opposition parties play their own games. The Liberals oppose almost everything, even measures they had previously supported when in power. Or they support bills in the House while trying to block them in the Senate. Opposition parties collaborate to pass private members’ bills that they know will be ignored because they infringe upon the government’s executive prerogatives; and they turn parliamentary committees into kangaroo courts, recklessly pursuing personal investigations for which they have neither training nor resources.
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