Guest Speaker - Rafe Mair

This week we had a lively presentation by Rafe Mair. Years ago he had introduced the Residential Tenancy Act -no one read it, it was approved hours later because the MP's were told to approve it. In our current system of government the Prime Minister and Cabinet are repsonsible to the House of Commons. If they are "bad" then they are removed - this has only happened once in our history (Sir John A MacDonald). The reality today is that we are a 5 year dictatorship. The Prime Minister has carrots and sticks to get the MP's to do what they are told. Carrots include trips south, cabinet appointments, bribes to constituencies (like another post office or whatever). Sticks include removal from your committee or even caucus. He can stop your politcal career. To change this you need to change the electorial system. Get invloved - Join a political party!