We have a Centralized Government where all the Governing powers are CENTRALIZED in key centers - Victoria for the Provincial Government and Ottawa for the Federal Government. Concentrating the power of Government in these centers greatly disenfranchises the CITIZENSHIP from their own Government.
It is this CENTRALIZATION of the Government that encourages the West vs East in our Federal Government, where the West feels that its interests are not represented by the Federal Government. Even in the Provincial Government being centered in Victoria the citizens of the province feel that the larger populated areas are the only concerns of the Government - one needs to live in the Lower Mainland to have their interests considered by the Government.
This CENTRALIZATION of our Government is only beneficial to the Politicians and the Bureaucrats. It is easier to keep control over the Government when it is Centralized in this manner and the Bureaucrats can all be centered in the more popular centers. The average Citizen becomes so removed from the Government that they do not see any REAL connection with the Government, it becomes some sort of a different entity that has little or no connection to them.
In order to bring DEMOCRACY to our Government we need to DE-CENTRALIZE the Government. We need to bring the power of Government to a more LOCALIZED form, where the CITIZENS can actually partake in their own Governing.
