Reducing excessive powers of Prime Minister: here’s a way to start

Prime ministers, once safely installed, have most of the powers commoners spent hundreds of years stripping from monarchs. That's got to change.

One of the nation's largest daily papers, The Toronto Star, " in a series of articles and columns published between June 20 and 27 argues that Canada's national government has become a "sham-ocracy." At the core of the series of problems identified is the excessive concentration of power i...

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