[ SECRET POST #3121 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3121 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Brooklyn 99]


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03.
[Psych]


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04.
[Mark Ruffalo]


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05.
[Armando Iannucci]


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06.
[MCU, Dr. Helen Cho]


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[The Drew Carey Show]


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08.
[Malcolm Tucker, The Thick of It]


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[Anthony Bourdain]


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10.
(Orange is the New Black)


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(Sense8)









Notes:

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Comments

Re: If you could pick one thing to be uninvented or undiscovered what would it be?

[(Anonymous)]

Can you outline precisely how a parliament would remedy any of the issues that you've ranted on at great length?

To be clear, simply saying "Because the Tea Party got beat in Canada" and then ranting about the Tea Party for 5 paragraphs is not a precise outline

Re: If you could pick one thing to be uninvented or undiscovered what would it be?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Only that's not what I did at all? It's not Parliament that remedies the issues; it's that, in my opinion, we have more checks and balances, under the Westminster system, to keep Parliament in line, and to stop things from spinning completely out of control, as they have done, south of the border.

Canada's implementation of Westminster also benefits from the fact that we are a confederation, NOT a republic, so that's an extra level of checks and balances that the Americans don't have. E.g., if Parliament wants to pass a law that would fundamentally affect constitutional rights (which only happens rarely, but it does happen), ALL of the provinces have to agree, or the law doesn't pass. In most cases? The law hasn't passed. The provinces can also reach agreements with each other without the input or oversight (or even approval) of the feds, as they just recently have, re: the national energy strategy.

Our current federal Health Minister had to basically write a letter to the premiers' meeting, begging them to let the feds in on a drug-buying plan/trade deal they were hammering out. The provinces could very well have said no. (They didn't.) Which is a big difference, that remedies some of the problems the USA has, with its more integrated system.

Re: If you could pick one thing to be uninvented or undiscovered what would it be?

[(Anonymous)]

Can you outline what those checks and balances are? I know that you think that the Supreme Court functions differently (even though you're wrong on that one) and that the relationship between the provinces and the government is different. What else, precisely?

Also, I would point out that the United States is also a federal system. Unfortunately the history of letting states do things on their own is... fraught, as you may perhaps have heard (see: 1861-1865).