No. 35 September 28, 2021 - IN THIS ISSUE - Results of the 44th Federal Elections

3 per cent of the eligible vote which the leader of the Liberal Party who becomes the Prime Minister of the country claimed is a “clear mandate.” With this result, the Liberals have surpassed their own low record of 33.1 per cent of the popular vote in 2019. [...] Since the 1993 election when the reputation of political parties and party government plummeted to single digits, instead of renewing the political process to eliminate the role of power and privilege in the hands of private interests, the parties with seats in the House of Commons formed a cartel which makes deals behind the backs of the people to keep themselves in power and the people disempowe. [...] The low percentage of the eligible vote the parties which form the government receive and the fact that votes do not translate into representation is evidence of the legitimacy crisis in which the system of representative democracy is mired. [...] As an overall description, the complaint states coverage was “biased in favour of the major parties and mislead viewers of facts regarding their actual voting options, from the daily news to the public affairs and highly partisan political panel coverage, to all aspects of the campaign including biased and unscientific polling.” The complaint acknowledges that while the CRTC does not require debat. [...] Letter to the Editor “Trudeau’s ‘Gamble'” in Renewal Update is a very good article which goes right to the heart of the problem as to why the various factions of the ruling class are unable to make accurate predictions in the current political and economic situation which this same ruling class has fostered.