Canada’s democratic good government laws are weaker than dozens of other countries:

• Our Prime Minister and Premiers have the most unrestricted powers of any elected leaders in the world (Click here to see details)
• One of the most dangerous unchecked powers of the PM and Premiers (except in Quebec) is the power to appoint essentially whomever they want to hundreds of law enforcement positions, including the top officers of the RCMP and every other police force, judges, and all democratic god government watchdogs, which leads to the appointment of lapdogs and weak, unfair and ineffective enforcement of many key laws. (Click here to see details)
• Our government transparency laws allow for excessive secrecy and cover-ups of waste and wrongdoing, and are weaker than the laws in more than 50 other countries, including the U.S. (Click here to see details)
• Our government spending accountability laws allow for waste of your money, and are weaker than the laws in more than a dozen other countries, including the U.S. (Click here to see details)
• Our government ethics laws are full of loopholes that allow politicians to secretly profit from their decisions, and are weaker than the laws in more than a dozen other countries, including the U.S. (Click here to see details)
• Our anti-foreign interference laws allow for secret, unethical influence by agents of foreign governments and businesses, and are weaker than the laws in many other countries, including the U.S. (Click here to see details)
• Our lobbying laws allow for secret, unethical lobbying and are weaker than the laws in more than a dozen other countries, including the U.S. (Click here to see details)
• Our political party leaders have more control over politicians in their party than the leaders in many other countries, including the U.S., which makes it easier for party leaders to ignore your and other voters’ concerns (Click here to see details)
• And our whistleblower protection laws are weaker than the laws in more than 60 other countries, including the U.S. (Click here to see details).

Our weak laws lead to waste of the money you pay in taxes, corruption, and many bad government decisions, including secret deals between governments and big businesses that protect big businesses and their multi-millionaire executives even when they gouge you, rip you off or abuse you in other ways, or violate environmental or worker protection laws.

Our weak laws also make Canada, and every province, and in many ways also the territories in the north, vulnerable to abuses of power by authoritarian, dishonest, unethical, secretive and wasteful political leaders and their cronies.

Surveys over the past decade show that a large majority of Canadians want these laws strengthened to close loopholes and ensure everyone in politics is required to be transparent, honest, ethical and to make decisions that address voters’ concerns and prevent waste (Click here to see details).

Please donate now on this page to support campaigns to close loopholes and strengthen these laws to make Canada the world’s best democracy.