Current Democratic System Breeds Corruption in Canadian Politics: Time for a New Economic Ideology
The Canadian government's bureaucracy is hiding the ineffectiveness of our current political system.
My esteemed colleagues here at InformedVote.ca have done an amazing job over the last week bringing to light non-publicized, yet incredibly important facts and figures normally lost in the massive bureaucratic vacuum that is organizing and leading this country of ours down the road to…where? I no longer know what to think. What are we achieving as a country? Delinquent on our promises to reduce emissions, maintain economic integrity, fight terrorism and protect social services, it’s becoming obvious to me that Canadians as a whole have lost their idealism. We can blame our politicians all we want, but the sad fact is that these public figures we’re so quick to criticize are elected by us, the Canadian public.
Once every few years, a steadily declining number of us don our thinking caps, pay attention to a few of the insults thrown back and forth between political parties, and decide to grant stewardship of this great nation to the group that appears to be the least ignorant, arrogant and threatening.
Disappointment in our chosen leaders inevitably sets in. Due to the lack of publicly perceived effectiveness in our inherited democratic process, more and more of us have lost interest as the years go by. Voter education and turnout continues to decline.
We’ve become a schizophrenic nation ignorant of our own history, oblivious to our own strengths, ridiculed and taken advantage of by our American counterparts and blind to the leadership role that only Canada, with its vast size, cultural mosaic and educated society, can offer the global village.
Authentic Canadian politics based on cooperation, unity, natural resource management and peacekeeping have been replaced by propaganda, corruption and so many personal self-serving agendas it’s impossible to place blame anywhere for any one problem this country is facing.
However, any problem presents us with an exciting opportunity that by definition cannot exist without the presence of a problem: a solution.
For every problem, there is a solution. Canadian politics are rife with problems, endless some might say, and I’d tend to agree but I’d also argue that, similar to starting a new job where your predecessor left everything in rough shape and it’s up to you to make sense of the chaos, a starting point must be established.
In order to determine what the starting point will be, Canadians need to collectively decide what issue poses the biggest problem, or opportunity for solution, to the health and well-being of Canadians nationwide and our leadership role in the international community.
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November 29th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Brilliant Trigg, I couldn’t agree more. I felt a sense of uplifting inspiration while reading your article. A certain hope for the future. I immediately began to wonder what would be the most effective way to get a message like this in the hands of our future, the young people who will one day make up our under-appreciated, over-criticized elected leaders.