Trudeau's "Government by Cabinet" Cannot Hide Use of Prerogative Powers
According to Trudeau, in his ministry, decisions are made on the basis of collaborative discussion. They are based on science and deliver on election promises. Ministers, he said, speak in their own name and are not controlled by self-serving political directives from the Prime Minister's Office. All of these claims are self-serving nonsense. The structures of government from top to bottom are based on the ones created in the 17th century to enshrine a fictitious person of state which all members of government and the Prime Minister himself are sworn to serve and protect. While the rise of the Commons against the absolute powers of the monarch put limitations on the royal prerogative, under neo-liberalism government transformations, legal and structural, have put limits on the powers of the Commons. Rule by decree on the basis of prerogative powers has become the new normal. Who decides what policies are set and which measures are taken, when and by whom? Not the people of Canada, that is certain. The oaths taken by Cabinet Ministers are as follows:
Individuals may choose to affirm their oath. In such cases, the word "swear" is replaced by the word "declare," and the expression "So help me God" is omitted. They have no option but to serve the Queen, however, which means the private interests which rule the roost. The people never enter into it. To call it a representative democracy where government is elected by the people is the first fraud. To say Trudeau governs through his cabinet is the second. This government must not be permitted to cause further damage to the polity and the cause of the peoples of the world to humanize the natural and social environment. It is time to make way for renewal!
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In 2015, when
Canadians expressed their categorical rejection
of Stephen Harper's rule by decree, Justin
Trudeau famously declared that "Government by
Cabinet" is back. The fraud of this claim is
that the trend of concentrating more and more
power in fewer and fewer hands is in no way
reversed. Far from it, the use of the "royal
prerogative" to impose decisions on the polity
has only increased as the Parliament has become
increasingly lame. Furthermore, not only do
Members of Parliament have no say in any of the
decisions they are asked to make, cabinet
ministers don't either. Theirs is but to
announce and defend what they are told.