Canada Gets Frosty Reception From British Magazine

Our economic and social progress has continued unabated, the magazine notes, maintaining a financial surplus and ideological independence that led the Economist to proclaim in August 2003 that "Canada is now rather cool.'' But author Peter David, the magazine's foreign editor, offers a considerably more frosty prognosis in describing the current electoral mess, one which began with the toppling of a minority Liberal government and will, he predicts, end with the re-election of another. "The affair points to a deeper malaise in Canada's politics. It is worrying that the Conservatives are considered unable to win even when the Liberals are laid low by scandal,'' David writes. "Long periods of domination by a single party are not good for the health of any democracy, let alone one in which power at the national level is highly centralized.'' The prime minister appoints not only the Governor General, but the Supreme Court and Senate, a system which, he points out, "would matter less if there were more frequent rotation in government.'' http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=308a9a99-6a23-4f42-a33e-fa0bc849c15b&k=21364

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