There are many advantages to abolishing parliament (and the senate):
1. Save many tens of millions of dollars a year, over 100 million for MP salaries and expenses alone, (salaries, staff, offices, travel, The Library, … ) Money that could be put towards programs for poorer Canadians.
2. Speed the implementation of bills by allowing smaller committees of only civil servants and ruling party members to hash out policy.
3. Help the PMO and ruling party focus more on policy, less on politics.
4. Free the media (and the public) from having to focus on parliament and the senate.
5. A more effective elimination process for private-member bills and opposition motions not supported by the PMO and the ruling party; they simply never occur.
6. Raise the standard of politics by eliminating the ineffectual debates in parliament and the senate.
7. Allows for fewer active members of the majority party since backbenchers are no longer needed.
8. It frees the government from stall tactics and criticism by the opposition until the next election.
9. Allows the PMO and the ruling party to finally consolidate power allowing more efficient governance.
10. Opposition MPs and senators would be freed to return to a more productive private life.
11. The parliamentary buildings could be put to a more useful role.
Abolishing parliament seems a logical step for our current system, doesn’t it?
So you think we should live in a dictatorship?
I'm with Winston Churchill, Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. By streamlining government to make it easier for one party or man to rule you'd effectively remove the checks and balances that protect our freedoms.
This is exactly the same rhetoric that was used to justify the assumption of power by the Nazis in the mid thirties. They claimed it was neccessary to remove the democratic institutions because they were inefficient and corrupt. For a while Hitler was able to make it appear his control of Germany was good for the country. By the time the reality of the situation set in, it was too late.
I don't care how qualified a leader or party
appears, they don't have all the answers for all the people. Power also corrupts and if we give one individual or group total power as you're advising the end result is going to be even more corruption and abuse of power.
I can't believe someone is even suggesting this. Learn your history to see what sort of result this kind of consolidation of power has had in countries like Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union in the last century. There's a reason Democracies are still around. They may be messy, but they offer the best compromise for long-term stabilty for a society.
