AlvinofDiaspar
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This one problem I have with what our political system has become. Certainly, the PM has a leadership role in public assurance and overall policy direction, but he doesn't have to have his fingers publicly in everything. We have a Cabinet, 338 elected members and professional bureaucracy. We don't have a presidential system; he is just the first minister - first among equals (theoretically). If this is what we have become or what some want, we can save a whole lot of time and treasure and just have the PMO run the country.
Our constitution doesn't allow it - if anyone wants to go that direction, open up another constitutional debate about what the Canadian Confederation should look like and the division of power between the provinces and the central government.
*Personally, I am all for that - our federal government is pathetically weak, and I am sick and tired of the provinces actively undermining national unity for provincial votes.
Since the US is putting the 14-day travel restriction for people coming from China, everyone is staying in Canada for those 14 days. Quite the dangerous situation. I heard that in California, they have a hospital ready when the coronavirus breaks out there. (If.)
And look at how the US has messed up now - with cases that couldn't be traced and basically herald community spread; HHS staff being sent to deal with evacuees without protection, and the CDC under gag order (and all in the context of a health system that basically discourages a good chunk of the citizens from using it due to cost).
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