There is only so much that can be covered in a half-hour interview, but CJSW got the goods on what ails Canada’s parliamentary system when we recently sat down with Green Party of Canada leader, Elizabeth May. In her new book, Losing Confidence: Power, Politics and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy, May tackles many of the important issues relevant to the Canadian citizen’s curiosity about what’s happening in Ottawa and its effects across the country. In the interview with CJSW reporter Mark Strowbridge, May covers a gamut of subjects, including how the RCMP managed to get Stephen Harper elected in 2005, how only Canada, the US and the UK still use the outmoded first-past-the-post system when the rest of the world has gone proportional representation, and how the media consortiums are failing in the journalist duties and more.
Listen to the Interview with Elizabeth May: