Title: Dumbing of Canadian Democracy
Subtitle: The Fall of Responsible Government
Author: Peter Boer
Paperback • 8.25″ x 5.25″ • 264 pages
ISBN: 978-1-926677-92-7
Retail List Price: $18.95
BISAC CODE: POL056000
BISAC CATEGORY: POLITICAL SCIENCE
/ World / Canadian
Political scandals abound in our country, no digging required. The windowsill of responsible government in Canada has become grimy with the dirt of recent lies and antics:
• Despite promises of Senate reform and fiscal accountability, Conservative senators Mike Duffy and Patrick Brazeau have been charged by the RCMP for fraud and breach of trust, and Pamela Wallen is still under investigation after the three used Senate coffers as a money tree for their activities
• With its majority votes in Parliament, the Conservative government has tried to push through several Omnibus bills, including a 321-page budget
bill that severely hampered workers civil rights by giving themselves the power to choose who is essential and cannot strike
• A holdover from the Liberal Sponsorship Scandal was the Chuck Cadman affair; allegedly Conservatives tried to sway his vote in a motion of non-confidence
• Only later was it revealed that the cost to replace Canada’s aging CF-18 fighter jets with F-35 Lightning II stealth aircraft has ballooned by billions of dollars due to a change in contract
• The Afghan detainee affair cast the Canadian government in the shadow of barbarism when it shirked the responsibility of ensuring that prisoners were not abused.
Peter Boer
Award-winning and bestselling author Peter Boer has a background in journalism having served as co-editor and reporter for the St. Albert Gazette. Peter is a graduate of the journalism program at Concordia University in Montreal, and he has a degree in psychology from the University of Alberta. He has a dozen other books to his credit including the bestseller Bush Pilots: Canada’s Wilderness Daredevils, as well as Canadian Spies and Spies in Canada, Canadian Crime Investigations:
Hunting Down Serial Killers and Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
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The Dumbing of Canadian Democracy
Political scandals abound in our country, no digging required. The windowsill of responsible government in Canada has become grimy with the dirt of recent lies and antics:
• Despite promises of Senate reform and fiscal accountability, Conservative senators Mike Duffy and Patrick Brazeau have been charged by the RCMP for fraud and breach of trust, and Pamela Wallen is still under investigation after the three used Senate coffers as a money tree for their activities
• With its majority votes in Parliament, the Conservative government has tried to push through several Omnibus bills, including a 321-page budget
bill that severely hampered workers civil rights by giving themselves the power to choose who is essential and cannot strike
• A holdover from the Liberal Sponsorship Scandal was the Chuck Cadman affair; allegedly Conservatives tried to sway his vote in a motion of non-confidence
• Only later was it revealed that the cost to replace Canada’s aging CF-18 fighter jets with F-35 Lightning II stealth aircraft has ballooned by billions of dollars due to a change in contract
• The Afghan detainee affair cast the Canadian government in the shadow of barbarism when it shirked the responsibility of ensuring that prisoners were not abused.
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