Canadians today look out over a political landscape dominated by major political parties that feign conflict and ideological battle. The rhetoric and jargon of the last 33 days of electioneering and post-election speeches, reinforced by a compliant media, are filled with a façade of disagreement over policy and principles that camouflage the reality. Canada’s democracy is in the hands of statists who believe that government justifiably holds near-absolute power. Where once there were accepted limits to democracy, today the only limits seem to be the degree to which policy can be shifted in marginally different ways.
