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Today's political parties soulless, says Savoie
Parliamentary agents have too much power, and politics has been taken over by professional politicians, says Donald Savoie. It's not good.
Parliament is less relevant today because it no longer holds the government to account, MPs have abandoned this responsibility and have handed it over to agents of Parliament, and political parties are soulless, says Donald Savoie, one of the country's leading experts on Parliament and the machinery of government in a scathing new book on power and influence in Ottawa.
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Today's political parties soulless, says Savoie
Parliamentary agents have too much power, and politics has been taken over by professional politicians, says Donald Savoie. It's not good.
Parliament is less relevant today because it no longer holds the government to account, MPs have abandoned this responsibility and have handed it over to agents of Parliament, and political parties are soulless, says Donald Savoie, one of the country's leading experts on Parliament and the machinery of government in a scathing new book on power and influence in Ottawa.
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