20220623 Taras Electoral Reform – Problem
Much of the problems in Canada are systemic. Our government is designed to just get bigger. There are no checks or motivation to reduce the size of government or to make it operate more efficiently. Big government makes corruption, commodification of citizens and control of people much easier to accomplish.
To combat these forces, our parliamentary system should be reconfigured to make it more accountable to the people rather than just having the veneer of democracy.
Electoral reform should have three main components to increase the accountability of our system:
- Elected Senate. Seeing how the Senate currently operates, it is easy to be cynical and say that the Senate is useless and should be abolished completely. The Senate as it stands should be abolished, but for the sake of democracy it must be reformed and given actual power to govern.
- Elected Governor General. Having our Head of State appointed by the PM, is utter folly.
- Elected PM. Our current system in which the leader of the political party that wins the most ridings and becomes the de facto PM is a testament to the weakness of the party system in our parliamentary democracy.
In this proposal the strength of parties will become weaker as self-serving entities and stronger as servants for the people.