With all the talk about the election I always thought a neat system would be citizens panels with advisors. Ordinary people from every province could put their names forward, selected at random and sit in parliament for one year terms advised by experts and bureaucrats and carry out the duties of MP's. There would be no party loyalty, no pension plan, no election expenses, no currying favour with special interests, no worries about how policy could affect your re-election chances, wouldn't essentially limit candidates to wealthy lawyers. At the end of the year a new group is installed. With new technology it isn't even necessary to operate in one location, like Ottawa - it could all be done electronically and people could still lead normal lives. The system could be tried on a city or municipality and then expanded after kinks are worked out.
A New System
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Being that it takes at least 6 months for a newly elected official to 'get up to date', that would mean that we would have a competent authority for all of 6 months of every year.Cock Throppled said:
C'mon - do you really think MP's and Ministers suddenly become experts in their positions? Do you really think, at the whim of the PM any MP can have his portfolio changed almost at random and they are knowledgeable or "up to speed" in appreciable way? The real power, the real expertise is all with the bureacrats that actually run government. They never change regardless of the party in power so it wouldn't really alter anything under my system. It might not work federally, but it could locally. Rememver the Citizens' Assembly on electoral reform? It would be something like that. What we have seems to accomplish fuck-all anyway.
I actually have a pretty good life in Canada with lots to be grateful for. Sorry if your life isn't all you'd like it to beCock Throppled said:
