Calls on Political Parties Across Canada to Make Much-Needed and Well-Known Democratizing Changes
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Democracy Watch
Democracy Watch today marked the second United Nations International Day of Democracy by calling on political parties across
Canada to work together to close the 90 undemocratic and accountability loopholes and flaws that effectively allow people involved in governments across Canada to act dishonestly, unethically, secretively, unrepresentatively and wastefully without any penalty.
"Canadian politicans and wealthy interest groups continually try to convince us that our democracy is already world-leading, but in fact after 142 years as a country Canada is still more undemocratic than countries most Canadians view as banana republics," said Duff Conacher, Coordinator of Democracy Watch.
"No Canadian government needs to wait for yet another scandal, or yet another commission or inquiry report, to close the well-known loopholes that allow people in politics to act dishonestly, unethically, secretively, unrepresentatively and wastefully," said Conacher. "The longer Canadian governments wait to clean themselves up and to practice good government, the more voters they turn off."
