atlanticaparty
02-24-2007, 12:09 PM
There are many advantages to abolishing parliament (and the senate):
1. Save many tens of millions of dollars a year, over 100 million for MP salaries and expenses alone, (salaries, staff, offices, travel, The Library, … ) Money that could be put towards programs for poorer Canadians.
2. Speed the implementation of bills by allowing smaller committees of only civil servants and ruling party members to hash out policy.
3. Help the PMO and ruling party focus more on policy, less on politics.
4. Free the media (and the public) from having to focus on parliament and the senate.
5. A more effective elimination process for private-member bills and opposition motions not supported by the PMO and the ruling party; they simply never occur.
6. Raise the standard of politics by eliminating the ineffectual debates in parliament and the senate.
7. Allows for fewer active members of the majority party since backbenchers are no longer needed.
8. It frees the government from stall tactics and criticism by the opposition until the next election.
9. Allows the PMO and the ruling party to finally consolidate power allowing more efficient governance.
10. Opposition MPs and senators would be freed to return to a more productive private life.
11. The parliamentary buildings could be put to a more useful role.
Abolishing parliament seems a logical step for our current system, doesn’t it?
1. Save many tens of millions of dollars a year, over 100 million for MP salaries and expenses alone, (salaries, staff, offices, travel, The Library, … ) Money that could be put towards programs for poorer Canadians.
2. Speed the implementation of bills by allowing smaller committees of only civil servants and ruling party members to hash out policy.
3. Help the PMO and ruling party focus more on policy, less on politics.
4. Free the media (and the public) from having to focus on parliament and the senate.
5. A more effective elimination process for private-member bills and opposition motions not supported by the PMO and the ruling party; they simply never occur.
6. Raise the standard of politics by eliminating the ineffectual debates in parliament and the senate.
7. Allows for fewer active members of the majority party since backbenchers are no longer needed.
8. It frees the government from stall tactics and criticism by the opposition until the next election.
9. Allows the PMO and the ruling party to finally consolidate power allowing more efficient governance.
10. Opposition MPs and senators would be freed to return to a more productive private life.
11. The parliamentary buildings could be put to a more useful role.
Abolishing parliament seems a logical step for our current system, doesn’t it?
