Advocate is right. Harper is confusing representative government with responsible government. the coalition actually understands responsible government according to the constition.
Responsiblity is a simulacrum to accountability. the prime minister must remain accountable/resonsible to the house, by making sure that the house has confidence in him. the liberal government says they don't have confidence in harper and therefore harper is not responsible. why does the liberal government not have confidence in harper? not sure yet.
how is it possible to be responsible when you need the confidence of the house of commons as a presumption to being responsible? and those people that you need to have confidence in you are the same people that want to grasp power away from you. responsibilty and confidence are directly related to each other, and this is unfortanate to the efficeiency of the canadian system.
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I feel the need to clarify myself.. If I was accountable/responsible to Barry Mantelope for tending to his sheep and some of the sheep died.. he would come to me and hold me accountable. This analogy can be transferred to my previous post on 'The Coalition Crisis' I am the executive branch who is responsible/accountable to Barry (the legislative branch) who represents Sheep (the people) thus the line of accountability goes, executive, legislative, people. To repeat it in a different way, responsibility it is not about how a person acts, it is about who gets blamed if sheep are harmed, and ultimately, the other parties believe that the Conservatives are not tending the sheep very well right now, and they feel they could do a better job. I suppose I too am a sheep and I would like a coalition to tend to me because Harper is bending me over right now.
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