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The weakness and decline of Parliament is due to institutional design and the opportunism of Prime Ministers.
Much ink has been spilled lamenting the decline of Parliament. Maclean's national editor Andrew Coyne provides a useful summary in a recent column: "... so degraded is Parliament's condition already—the consequence of many previous such assaults on Parliamentary rights, each of which was thought too trivial on its own to be worth making a fuss—that it's hard for the public to see what is being lost. It's only Parliament, after all. It's not as if it's something important."
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The incredible decline of Parliament
The weakness and decline of Parliament is due to institutional design and the opportunism of Prime Ministers.
Much ink has been spilled lamenting the decline of Parliament. Maclean's national editor Andrew Coyne provides a useful summary in a recent column: "... so degraded is Parliament's condition already—the consequence of many previous such assaults on Parliamentary rights, each of which was thought too trivial on its own to be worth making a fuss—that it's hard for the public to see what is being lost. It's only Parliament, after all. It's not as if it's something important."
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