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> isn't even removed from office Canadian here. I know this isn't the point of your post but I feel obliged to make excuses for the fact that Toronto's mayor h
by RyanMcGreal 13y ago
> isn't even removed from office
Canadian here. I know this isn't the point of your post but I feel obliged to make excuses for the fact that Toronto's mayor has not been removed from office. The reason Toronto City Council and the Ontario Provincial Government don't have the power to do this is that under the parliamentary traditions on which the Canadian political system is based, it is inconceivable that a politician could behave in so utterly disgraceful a manner and not have the basic human decency and shame to resign on his own volition.
Also, for what it's worth, Canada's record of judicial fairness with respect to race is not much better than America's, and our Conservative Federal Government has adopted an American-style tough-on-crime stance that has embraced mandatory minimum sentences and so on - some of which has already been declared unconstitutional.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/minimum-gun-sentence-ruled-unconstitutional-1.2423693 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/minimum-gun-sentence-ruled-unc...