Democracy, Schmocracy

At least, that's what this Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition attempt seems to suggest to the Canadian public.

There's a few links that very concisely say what I would like to. So I'll link you to them: Andrew Coyne's blog, as well as ALW's. The few recent posts on each of those sites is good reading.

Believe it or not, I believe that the Lib-NDP-Bloc have a perfectly reasonable right to first defeat the government, and then ask the Governor General for them to form the government. Of course, she'll first be hearing from the PM, asking her to dissolve the government and have an election. The opposition parties would have to convince her that they would be able to form a stable government (whether they could convince her or not, this is highly unlikely to be a 'stable' government coalition).

Why is this such an affront to democracy then? Well, just consider the fact that part of this coalition suggests putting in 4 'All-Star' Canadians as an 'economic council' to guide the Liberals and NDP on this glorious coalition. Who are they? Frank McKenna, Paul Martin, John Manley, and Roy Romanow.

None of whom are elected officials. None of whom were chosen by the Canadian people. All of whom either left elected office, or the Canadian electorate specifically rejected.

This leaves aside the grand plan of this coalition to try to spend our way out of this recession, by increasing taxes and providing "stimuli" - which would be bad enough, but to implement it via a system of unelected and rejected ex-politicos is simply embarassing.

I like that. If the above scenario happens, I'm going to dub that group the "Unelected and Rejected". Sounds like a cheesy band title. If only that's what it was.