{"id":219427,"date":"2026-04-12T16:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/?p=219427"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:02:30","slug":"erosionofdemocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/erosionofdemocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Up! The creeping erosion of democracy | Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cMy responsibility to you and my personal integrity matter more than an unelected seat on the government benches in the House of Commons.\u201d<\/em> –  Scott Aitchison, Member of Parliament for Parry Sound\u2013Muskoka<\/p>\n\n\n

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Last week, I wrote an article about the Ford government in Ontario proposing legislation that would allow them to appoint heads of otherwise elected regional municipal governments in the province, effectively interfering with local municipal elections.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stand by what I wrote then, and many people agreed with my comments. Some of those, no doubt, were not fans of the Ford government in the first place, and so it was easy to cry foul as this proposed legislation relates to the democratic process in Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t help but wonder how many of those particular individuals will rationalize the efforts of the Carney government to achieve a majority in Parliament, which was not elected or sanctioned by voters in Canada. To me, this is equally undemocratic and equally wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have said previously that I believe Mark Carney, as Prime Minister, with his particular background, is the right person at the right time, especially with everything that is going on in the world that directly affects Canada. I stand by that as well. But Carney was not handed a majority government by the people of Canada.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a big difference between a minority and a majority government. One makes the government fully accountable to Parliament. The other pretty well gives them carte blanche. Both scenarios are fully democratic, but only if chosen by the people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Federal Liberals will win at least two by-elections this week in traditional safe seats and will then have the majority government they covet. But even with those wins, they would not have that majority without people unelected as Liberals sitting on the government side of the House. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are those who will shrug and say, oh well, if an election were held today, Carney would get a majority, so what\u2019s the difference? But there is a difference, and it is called democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others will say that the Carney government had nothing to do with defections from opposition parties, especially from Conservatives who crossed the floor solely because they disliked Pierre Poilievre. Hogwash. That may have made it easier for the Liberals to recruit them, but it was incentive and opportunism that made them cross the floor.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have always been opposed to floor-crossing. A member of Parliament is elected on the basis of his or her partisanship. They have a contract with the people who elected them to represent the interests of that constituency, as well as the political party they stood for. In my view, a member of Parliament who can no longer abide the political party for which they were elected has only two choices. They can either resign and trigger a by-election in their constituency or sit in Parliament as an independent. Floor-crossing to create a majority government that was not elected by the people does not pass the smell test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, why did this happen? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, with the Carney government’s current popularity, those who crossed the floor quite likely feared he would call an election to legitimately win his majority, and they would be in real danger of losing their seats. By joining the government benches to create that majority, they have guaranteed themselves three more years on the parliamentary payroll and pension plan, and their constituents who elected them can do nothing about it. If that is not a breach of contract, I do not know what is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More importantly, these floor-crossings were a specific strategy of the current government to secure a majority in Parliament without going back to the electorate. To me, that is a grab for power they were not given, are not entitled to and is not democratic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Liberals have made no secret about their campaign to encourage opposition members to cross the floor. In fact, they have wallowed in it and openly boasted about their \u201cnegotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so, the question arises, what incentive was offered to the members of the Opposition to join the Liberal ranks? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Negotiation at its core implies some sort of exchange. What was it? A trip to China? A commitment to an appointment as a Liberal candidate in the next election rather than having to face a nomination process? A patronage appointment if they lose the next election? Appointment to a favourite committee or as a Parliamentary Assistant or even to Cabinet? All of this and more is within the purview of a sitting government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And please do not tell me this did not happen. One Conservative Member of Parliament reported he was approached by a Liberal colleague and asked, \u201cWhat would it take?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This strategy on the part of the Liberal government also raises the question of the importance to them of ideology and integrity and whether a quest for absolute power, not granted by the electorate, simply trumps that.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can believe that some of the moderate conservatives who joined the Liberal benches could be acceptable to that caucus. But Marilyn Gladu? Give me a break!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the past ten years, Marilyn Gladeau has been as far right as you can get in the Conservative Party of Canada. She ran as a right-wing, social Conservative candidate to be its Leader.  She was a huge fan of the Truck Convoy that paralyzed Ottawa a few years ago, and some of her positions have been homophobic. It is hard for me to believe that any genuine Liberal would see this recruitment as anything other than the height of opportunistic hypocrisy by their own Party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robyn Urback, a journalist with The Globe and Mail, said this about Marilyn Gladu\u2019s recruitment by the Liberals. \u201cIt says something else entirely about the Liberal Party as an entity: about what it stands for, what its principles are, where its ideological outlook lies on the political spectrum.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the same article, Robyn Urback also said, \u201cThe governing Liberals will obviously accept whichever warm body comes its way on the slow march to a majority.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In defending this recruitment, Cabinet Minister and former journalist Evan Solomon said, \u201cWe are interested in unity, not uniformity.\u201d Hogwash again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is one other concern about the Carney Liberals recruiting Opposition Members of Parliament to the government benches, and that is whether it conforms to the law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Section 119 of the Criminal Code of Canada states that \u201cIt is illegal to directly or indirectly offer a reward, advantage or benefit to a public official to influence their actions.\u201d As time goes by, it will be interesting to see how that worked out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe that floor-crossing is wrong. More importantly, however, I believe that a fundamental principle of democracy is that citizens decide who and which political party they want to represent them in Parliament, and only they can decide whether they want a minority or a majority government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is my view that the Carney government has contributed to the erosion of democracy by manipulating a majority in Parliament with unelected Liberals and exercising power not intended by the electorate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are seeing this erosion quite visibly in many parts of the world, as little by little, we witness governments taking power away from the people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The erosion of democracy is creeping into the actions of Federal and provincial governments in Canada as well, bit by bit, and perhaps not yet prominently, but nevertheless present. We need to stop that in its infancy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However much governments may want to extend their power over the people they serve, democratic principles cannot harbour simple convenience.                           <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugh Mackenzie<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hugh Mackenzie has held elected office as a trustee on the Muskoka Board of Education, a Huntsville councillor, a District councillor, and mayor of Huntsville. He has also served as chairman of the District of Muskoka and as chief of staff to former premier of Ontario, Frank Miller.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugh has also served on a number of provincial, federal and local boards, including chair of the Ontario Health Disciplines Board, vice-chair of the Ontario Family Health Network, vice-chair of the Ontario Election Finance Commission, and board member of Roy Thomson Hall, the National Theatre School of Canada, and the Anglican Church of Canada. Locally, he has served as president of the Huntsville Rotary Club, chair of Huntsville District Memorial Hospital, chair of the Huntsville Hospital Foundation, president of Huntsville Festival of the Arts, and board member of Community Living Huntsville.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In business, Hugh Mackenzie has a background in radio and newspaper publishing. He was also a founding partner and CEO of Enterprise Canada, a national public affairs and strategic communications firm established in 1986.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, Hugh is president of C3 Digital Media Inc., the parent company of Doppler Online, and he enjoys writing commentary for Huntsville Doppler.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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