A government needs to reflect the people not only in who leads, but in how. We’ve seen the failings of the colossal cluster muck that is the structure of the United States government (an electoral vote that disproportionately values low population states based on antiquated maps and politics, not to mention two-year congressional terms), which is itself rooted in the belief that we should stick to the literal definition of the ideas put in place hundreds of years ago.
But once again, let’s stop kicking them when they’re down and instead show some humility for once and look over to Ottawa. Now of course, there is going to be a whole new set of problems with an elected senate (if we were to reform it) as politics and popularity contests don’t necessarily mean you get the best people, unless we as a cultural and society can start thinking more critically and changing what we value in leaders. However, as it stands we have an appointed and unaccountable group made up of residential school proponents, sexual predators, and fat cats who are limited by such stringent and common sense rules such as owning property “of the Value of Four thousand Dollars.”
