Dear Mr Duff Conacher,
cc Various editors
cc Canada
Re: Your question "Should omnibus bills be banned so politicians are not forced to vote on various unrelated bills all at the same time?"
All of your campaign's concerns (the audacity and arrogance of majority PM's) could be addressed by a public review of the Letters Patent 1947.
The BNA/Constitution lays out (and the Letters Patent confirms and expands) the powers (and superiority/independence) of the Executive Power (ss.9-16) vested in the Monarch and Governor General.
The power to withhold Assent (+plus disallow and reserve it) plus the terms of ss.12-13 clearly establishes the role of "Benevolent Autocrat/ Arbitrator" in the Office of our Governor General.
No law prevents the GovGen from exercising these powers (or s.90, the Lt Gov provincially + ss.58-68).
The only reason Canadians do NOT enjoy the protection of a "Benevolent Autocrat/Arbitrator" on BOTH these levels of governance is the appointment process since Wm L M King's days - normal Canadian folks are elevated to vice-regal status and subsequently deign/dare not bite the hand that "brung" them (sorry to mix metaphors).
If the GovGen (Lt Gen's) were elected at-large there would be no question about their mandate and their responsibilities - as a further check/balance on the activities of the Legislative power (esp a majority).
Further, an public examination of the "legality" of the post-WW2 continuance of Order in Council PC 1940-1121 (the wartime merger of the non-political office of Clerk of the Privy Council with the all-political Office of Secretary to the Cabinet prompted by the urgency to co-ordinate the mobilization of all of Canada's resources to save Great Britain) ?could? lead to the rescission of that temporary, emergency Order and ?could? lead to the restoration of the complete 4-level hierarchy of check/balance powers outlined in the amazingly prescient BNA Act 1867.
see link to PC 1940-1121
Digression and mind-jolter - Have you ever wondered why Canada never calls on the best-educated, most-experienced, longest-serving, fully life-tested, most well-connected individual in the World for advice?
To me, this oversight/neglect is particularly odd, when your consider that Her Majesty the Queen is already established as the 4th (and ultimate) check/balance in Canada's hierarchical power-sharing arrangement referenced above?
In my view, until we return to the 'as-written' provisions of our foundation law, we have no valid constitution, no consistent body of laws, no responsible parliament and no hope of legislative justice, honour, truth or accountability.
I submit that to continue to ignore this hidden-right-under-our-noses truth only proves we collectively have no knowledge of the facts AND/OR no innate will to govern ourselves, no inherent awareness of the need to be eternally vigilant and no idea that this superbly located, magnificently abundant (built of yellow and black gold) country can collectively belong to us ... if we make the effort to cast off our "benign neglect".
Until we restore Canada's original and still perfectly-suited hierarchical power-sharing framework, seizing it back from the "machinery of government" that has usurped all the legislative and executive power and placed the resident/taxpayer/citizens in the role of tenant-farmer/ indentured servant/ feudal serf/ cannon fodder blindly following edicts from on high ... we will prosper no further as individuals, as families, as a people, as a nation-of-nations united as one country, as a middle-power fighting above-its-weight-class ... we will only dwindle.
"... Not with a bang, but a whimper." ( T.S Eliot)
Rce
"There is no shame in turning back, when you discover you're on the wrong path"
Robert Ede,
Spokesman,
"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
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