Leaders want status quo for Canadians

DEAR EDITOR:

We are constantly being told we are a democracy, while millions of Americans insist they are a Republic.

Interesting points, when we consider why and how our electoral systems were designed to produce successive majority governments to be able to rule colonies.

Our government leaders want a two-party system that will continue to give them absolute control over Parliament, just like Harper and Trudeau have managed to refine and entrench during the last decade.

They adopted party discipline to control how our elected MPs act and vote, and lying and cheating has become the new normal.

That’s not democracy.