Canadian Democracy Essay

Canadian democracy was based of the British parliamentary system, and the goal was to have an independent country without having to go through the negative aspects of war like the United States in their independence. What has arisen from the earliest days of Canadian government is a hotbed of power waiting to be seized by a leader with a vision for the Canadian people and way of life. The problem is that there is much of Canadian federal politics is a charade; a façade of representational government and democracy with arbitrary appointments and no oversight to a plethora of government activities, the Canadian Prime Minister is one of the most powerful positions in and ‘democratic’ government.
The Cabinet government that was the original model for the Canadian government, had a variety of people in charge of their area of influence, they held the power of persuasion with respect to their ministerial portfolio (Cochrane et

This is because the Prime Minister has the power to pick members of the senate and it is in their best interest to ensure that those members will act favourably to the selecting governing power, usually selecting party loyalists or persons who have donated money to see the party succeed. As a result, those selected have a vested interest in the party’s platform, and by extension, are usually more than happy to pass bills with little resistance from the Prime Minister that appointed them (class notes). The fact that the senate is wary of dissolution from excessive public distrust owing to the lack of ethics within the senate, also affects the absence of senate opposition to House of Commons’ bills (class