Silly Little Country

Watergate, Deep Throat, and this Silly Little Country

A news highlight of the last week for those of my generation is the final confirmation that Mark Felt was 'Deep Throat'. Thre has been much analysis of this of course. Looking back it is hard to know how much he contributed. In the end the sheer checks and balance process of the US Constitution caused the President to resign.

Now here in Canada we had about a week ago a key vote that could have caused our minority government to be forced to go again to the polls. Now tapes have been released apparently documenting discussions between government representatives trying to'persuade' opposition members to change their votes. The government survived.

It is now in other hands to see what happens. The RCMP has the tapes.

I am far less confident that Canadian processes can do the job of the processes in the US.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 8:04 PM