09-10-2018, 08:28 PM
(09-10-2018, 08:21 PM)SammyOES2 Wrote:(09-10-2018, 07:48 PM)jgsz Wrote: The real issue is that a minority is pushing the majority around - again. Ford got only 40.49 percent of the popular vote. I fully understand how our electoral system ‘works.’ But that’s just wrong. In a true democracy the majority governs.
I dont like this line of reasoning in these cases. I agree with a lot of the problems of a representative system like we have. But it’s what we have and it works as intended. People are going to tune out to this argument.
Overruling the courts on charter matters because you can (and intending to use it regularly) is NOT how our system was intended to work. And we really don’t want it to work this way.
I agree. I would like a (more?) proportional electoral system but this is what we have today, and we need to accept that this is how things work.
But the notwithstanding clause was certainly not intended or settling personal grudges with a lower level of government.