The COVID-19 crisis has neutered Canada’s already weakened Parliament GlobePolitics
Although it has sat for a day here and a day there to authorize emergency spending, regular sittings aren’t scheduled to resume until the third week of September, although “I’m starting to wonder whether we will have regular sittings before the next election," said Philippe Lagassé, a political scientist at Carleton University who studies parliamentary systems. “It’s a fair concern at this stage.
If so, the 43rd Parliament could give the 31st of 1979 – Joe Clark’s short-lived Conservative government – a run for its money as the Parliament with the fewest sitting days. But as Prof. Lagassé observes, British MPs see themselves as parliamentarians first and party members second, while Canadians MPs are slaves to the party whip.
One check on executive authority, the press, has been in decline for years, as advertisers shift over to Google and Facebook. The pandemic has accelerated the decline for many news organizations.
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