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Title: Roots of Our Democratic Malaise.
Author : Canadian Parliamentary Review
Release Date : January 22, 2002
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 228 KB

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This article suggests that several dysfunctional elements have crept into our democratic parliamentary institutions. Among other things it looks at the relationship between the executive and legislative branches, the question of party discipline and the link between citizens and their elected representatives. A former parliamentary colleague, reliable and experienced, said to me once, only half joking: It is not the system that is sick, it is we parliamentarians who are sick. I began by disagreeing with him but now I find his comments rather sensible. A major part of the public's disenchantment with the political community is caused by the impoverished role of the parliamentarian, and by the contempt in which elected officials themselves hold democratic institutions, and by their widespread abdication of their responsibilities.