'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's mystery brain disease

Re:'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's ... by Sevrene on Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:32AM (#46573444)

It feels like now you're saying it's not because it's parliament's nature to be like this, but rather these other factors that occure within parliaments and other systems?

Can't you unelect the MPs? Doesn't the paper thin margins increase those odds? Honestly, it doesn't sound like the issue is a parliamentry system, but rather people either aren't aware of the issues (media), or have decided (wrongly or rightly) not to care. Either way I still don't get how that's the parliamentry nature as much as it's the people's. That's kind of the point of these systems.

I don't know enough about Candaian Punjabi dispora to comment about the other stuff.

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Re:'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's ... by alephnerd on Sunday January 11, 2026 @03:25PM (#46579646)

> Can't you unelect the MPs

All MPs in NB need to kiss the ring, otherwise they'll face a well funded challenger.

Furthermore, 1 out of every 7 NBers are employed by JDI and Irving Oil.

> Either way I still don't get how that's the parliamentry nature as much as it's the people's. That's kind of the point of these systems

The ability to threaten a no-confidence motion means individual MPs can have an outsized impact on the executive branch.

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