Hah, I got all my political science lessons growing up in Montreal and Ottawa so I know more lot about it than almost any other. Ah, after thirty years in the US, that’s probably not so…

But I don’t see why you say the Canadian system of governance is like the Americans’. It’s a parliamentary democracy very like the one I now live in (the Netherlands) or the UKs.

Take for example a Motion of No Confidence. This is a key part of a parliamentary system, where the PM is just the ringleader for the MPs. But there isn’t any way that could even conceptually exist in America — the President is elected “directly” by the people (the whole Electrical College, as I like to call it, is basically just procedural).

You know, I read your TDG at some point but it didn’t sink in. What’s the shortest and most direct exposition of it?