IL#4

I believe that proportional representation would best serve the interest of Canada. Voting for a specific party rather than a specific candidate would better suit the average Canadian citizen. We tend to vote for the character we like better rather than the party. The people don’t really see what the party will offer because most people can’t see past the specific representative.  Sometimes the smaller parties will have better opportunities for Canada and with parliamentary democracy the small parties have no hope in getting into parliament.

If Canada would have to have a authoritarian government Canada would benefit more from a Oligarchy.  Having a small segment of society with political power would be better then and absolute monarchy and military dictatorship. With oligarchy governments there is a better chance that one person will not take all the power and destroy the economy.  I don’t believe Canada would do well with an authoritarian government but Canada has some good citizen so there would be a better possibility that a good segment of the society would guide Canada political in a good direction.

Representation VS Authority

Representative Democracy:

Similarities- Proportional representation, parliamentary democracy and republican democracy all use a voting technique to elected government power.

Competition is accepted

Differences: Proportional Representation citizens vote for a party rather than a specific candidate, republican democracy vote for a president and the president chooses his vice president and each state has two senators. Parliamentary democracy elected executive branch needs support of elected legislative branch.

Proportional representation representatives are assigned according to level of popular support (percentage of vote) rather than parliamentary democracy were as long as you win more ridings you will get more seats.

Unlike Republican democracy and Parliamentary democracy proportional representation is more successful with smaller parties.

Competition is accepted

Authoritarian Governments:

Similarities-Military dictatorship and one party states both promotes unity.  

Economic freedom is accepted

One party state and oligarchy both governments are run by one party.

Competition is rejected

Differences- Military Dictatorship is run by the military while oligarchy and one party state are both run by one party only.

Competition is rejected

Representative Democracy VS Authoritarian Government

Similarities- Representative democracy and authoritarian government both use propaganda to get you to vote for their parties. Representative democracy use subtle commercial while authoritarian governments use a more of a brainwashing technique.

Differences- Authoritarian governments use terror on behalf of the government to get there parties to power while representative democracy uses a fair vote to get there parties to power.

Economic freedom is rejected

Authoritarian governments can be at term as long as they like while representative democracy has set terms that one person can be at power for.

Rule of law is rejected

Parliamentary Democracy- UK and Canada

Republican Democracy- France and USA

Proportional Representation- South Africa, Israel and Venezuela

Monarchy- Iran

Oligarchy- North Korea

One-party state-China

 Military Dictatorships-Burma

IL-2

I do believe that Canada has the right to protect the New Democratic system in Afghanistan. Canada helped destroy the government system that was in place so its Canada responsibility to fill the loss of government power with something more stable.

We shouldn’t take full responsibly though, there should be limits. I don’t believe that Canada should be shelling out billions of dollar for this. I think other countries should step up and help share the responsibility. It wouldn’t benefit many other countries if we could get Afghanistan under stable conditions.