>>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?
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>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.
But that is how it is here as well. If the House is predominantly liberal and the Senate is mostly conservative (were talking no filibuster power really would need to be the case), very few laws make it through both for signature by the President. :o)
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