Where is Democracy?

Our election system might be seen as being democratic but is a process democratic if it goes against the Charter of Right and Liberties of "the people"? It is clear that in our Charter of Rights and Liberties, we are (in theory) all equal under the same law and so forth... But by not treating all parties equally, by giving unequal coverage by media, and worse... by ignoring what those parties are demanding (that is equal treatment), the leaders of the major parties are not respecting our own Charter. From Paul Martin's own words, he is not fitted to occupy that job... he respects the Charter for Same-sex unions but does not support the Charter when it comes to something as fundamental as the election system of Canada. The old parties have shown that all they want is Power to Rule over the People. This seems to be a modern for of dictatorship... we vote for our next dictatorial government. This is clear because, in dictatorial regime, the public media is under strict control by the governing body. They will wisely filter the information to gain advantages over other parties. For example, why the major parties and TV consortium won't allow the small registered political parties to receive the same medium coverage than them? As we know, vote is money for all parties since the new law on election was passed. Each vote puts 1.75$ in their bank accounts. If they were to give more coverage to the small registered parties, they would certainly loose money because it is clear that the Canadian People are fed up with our governing bodies. The vote turnout has been going to Hell and we end up with minority governments, one after the other. They know very well that if they were to give more coverage to the small parties they will loose votes, money and power (over the people) because some of those small parties have good solutions and ideas that people would vote for, thus dilution of the votes. By giving equal representation to all parties they might even go straight to extinction. And the extinction of those parties would mean the end of the support from certain corporations... no power... no money... no support. So many fundamental questions are at stake. There are so many questions to be answered. Here's another one; can we get democracy back in Canada? Is it too late? Only "the people" of Canada can really decide that but then again, they need to know the truth. But the truth won't come out if we always vote for the same old and deceiving parties. There are not too many parties that has Democracy in their Platform. In fact, Democracy does not stop at the election of "representatives". It is clear that once the election process is over, so is democracy. Our say stops there. But it does not have to be like that. We as a people must take back what is ours, Canada! Democracy is not in Ottawa but within each one of us. We need to let them know that we want it back badly.

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