PhilPaine.com

A fine, suc­cinct post on the cur­rent dys­func­tion­al state of democ­ra­cy in both Cana­da and the Unit­ed States.

sam­ple:

Indeed an even more impor­tant prin­ci­ple has been lost track of in just the last few years. That is the idea that the Prime Min­is­ter and his cab­i­net only hold office when they can com­mand the con­fi­dence of the House of Com­mons. Remem­ber when Steven Harp­er was held in con­tempt of Par­lia­ment by major­i­ty of the mem­bers? And the Gov­er­nor Gen­er­al let him get away with ignor­ing this and treat­ing it as mere­ly a par­ti­san stunt? One can have a cer­tain amount of sym­pa­thy for the Gov­er­nor Gen­er­al who prob­a­bly felt that if she fired Harp­er instead of let­ting him pro­rogue Par­lia­ment, she would enjoy no sup­port what­so­ev­er in the polit­i­cal class. She was right, but right here the Cana­di­an Con­sti­tu­tion broke down, and few peo­ple noticed or at least took it seriously.