Of course we have the same parliamentary system here in Canada. I didn't see Justin Trudeau's name anywhere on the ballot the other day. We vote for the local representative and whichever party has the most seats "chooses" the Prime Minister.
I can see benefits and deficits in each of the parliamentary and the Republican systems. Ours mostly works well - for us anyway. Cheers, frank On October 21, 2015 11:02:14 PM EDT, Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >On Thu, Oct 22, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Peter Loveday wrote: >> You guys and your elections, how inefficient. >> >> We don't even bother with that stuff to change PMs these days :) > > >Every cloud has a silver lining... > >Of course, Australians never get to elect the PM. The parliament does >that - a fact that is lost on much of the electorate. > > > >Cheers > >Brian > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Brian Walters >Western Sydney Australia >http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > >> >> - Peter >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: knarf >> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 2:01 PM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: OT - Elections and Politics and Guns and Religion >> >> Okay, now that I got your attention, it's really a post about >elections. >> >> We in the Great White North just had one. It was the longest election > >> campaign in our country's history: three months. >> >> The news guys declared the winner about 6 minutes after the polls >closed, >> and declared a majority government an hour after polls closed. >> >> Living in Canada has its advantages. >> >> Cheers, >> >> frank >> -- >> >> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson >> >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. >> -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
