They just need a little refrom.
:lol:
[url=http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~dploy/stateless/northamer.html]http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~dploy/sta ... hamer.html[/url]
hey, Zartan or anybody else, could you confirm or deny what this guy is saying about Canada?
ANYWAYS getting back on topic...
I disagree with the idea of electing your own senators - not because I don't like it, but because it's not tradition in Canada or any bicameral Commonwealth state. As well, the United States didn't elect it's senators until the 1910's, so it's still a relatively new idea.
Having a weak upper house with members-for-life is actually pretty nice, I think. Politics really cannot take over in the Senate because there are no elections to win, and they can take an elitist stand on legislation without the threat of an aristocracy.
I have a real love-hate affair with the United States Senate. As a liberal Californian, I see the proportional representation of the House as being the most logical way to do things. However, I can get away from WANTING to be a Senator.
Maybe I'll move to Ottawa (when I go crazy or get a job calling Sens and Rens games).
I agree with Steve, Senators should be chosen by people who know what they are doing. However, the Parliament system needs reform, two house, one reps the populasion, the other reps the provinces, etc.
I agree…the premier or the provincial legislature should probably appoint senators as they need to be replaced.
The only question is the level of representation. Equal, proportional, or somewhere in between? Do you really want to see 24 Ontarian senators?
In other news, I decided to map Alaska on Google…damn that place is freaky looking. Almost as freaky as Nunavut looks.
KANGA: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Fairbanks … &t=k&hl=en
(I know it says Fairbanks, but that’s just cause I had done that for a search)
KANGA
First you want to change our CFL then our flag and now our Government system.
Anything else?
Actually, next election, I’m going to vote for Kanga, can’t be any worse than what we’ve got! 
I like to name a holiday after myself. every February 19th will henceforth be Kanga-Kucha Day! :lol:
C’mon, RO, you know a parliament like that would be just what Canada needs, and the Liberails would still win but the convervatives would have more power in the province house.
the Canadian Flag can’t change yet cuz Alaska isn’t a part of Canada therefore there isn’t any need for change to Red and Blue. I’d only want to change a few things about the CFL that would make it better!
hey we agree on the Single point.
Thank You, sportsmen, but I’m not cut out to be a leader, I’m rather a prophet that teaches others to do my ideas.
Cool map, looks like a criket stadium there! :shock:
I say that one house needs to be base on provinces, where there are 2 or 8 reps per province, and the other by population, where Ontario would have the majority cuz of pop. yeah, it’s the american congress system, BUT IT WORKS!!!
That site you pointed out has some inaccuracies, do to lack of detail more than anything else. For example, flags for the French communities outside of Quebec can be found in almost any province or territory. Also, Newfoundland used to be its own country (it reverted to British governance after economic collapse), and the tri-colour was the nationally flag, unofficially or not. The colours represent the Catholic (green and white) and Protestant (pink). The flag of Cape Breton does not represent a separatist movement, it simply represents the island (like a municipal flag).
I should say more, but I am alienated by this site right now.
If we had an elected Senate the Liberals wouldn’t have any place to put their cronies and MP’s that screw up. :lol:
Posted by Steve-o : Dec 23, 2005 - 03:27 AMANYWAYS getting back on topic…
I disagree with the idea of electing your own senators - not because I don’t like it, but because it’s not tradition in Canada or any bicameral Commonwealth state. As well, the United States didn’t elect it’s senators until the 1910’s, so it’s still a relatively new idea.
Australians have been electing their senators since the formation of the nation in 1901, currently 12 per state and two each from the two territories, and most state upper houses have had elected representatives – with the exception of NSW – from the early 20 Century.
But what this has to do with football (Canadian) or footy (Australian) is beyond me 
Australia has always been first to election reform and other great reforms. Regardless, that’s only 104 years of direct Senate elections.
And KANGA: It’s the MCG.
That shows you how little I know about my home country, very sad. 
but nevertheless, the MCG is still the GREATEST AND OLDEST STADIUM IN THE WORLD! OVER 150 YEARS BABY!
But if Canada does what we have said, they should do it differently to make them unique. I don’t think a parliament that was designed in the UK really works for Canada because UK is so small and Canada is so big. and I don’t think Senators should be chosen by the public but by people who are elected by the public.
I like to see Canada become a Republic like Australia almost did in 2001 and will hopefully become someday, but knowing Canada’s history, it seems to me that Canada is more loyal to the Monarch than Australia is. So it your choice Canada, and I know you will make the right one in regards to Canada being a Republic with you own sovereign or staying the way things are now.
this shows what the Parliament looks like and what it should look like.
if the Canadian Parliament was divided like the Congress, the House of Popular or Reps would look like this.
Big Thanks to Ro1313 from this info.
BTW
http://www.newstates.net/