>I don't know. If you add to this the fact that we still have a representative of the Queen (the Governor General) who can (theorically at least) have her word, it look more like a pseudo-democracy to me.
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>>I'm confused. How is that a democracy?

I nag my Member of Parliament regularly about an empowered Senate. After all, if we elect Liberals to the Senate and Conservatives to the House of Parliament then their bill shuffleing and bickering makes them take much longer to fleece our wallets.