Frasi di Elizabeth May

Elizabeth May è politica canadese.

✵ 9. Giugno 1954
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“Three of my ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence.”

Introduction, p. 10-11
Losing Confidence - Power, politics, And The Crisis In Canadian Democracy (2009)
Contesto: Three of my ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence. It's just that any system of government has it pluses and minuses and it's important to understand the system of government you do live under so that you can protect it.

“Countries with high voting rates also have high levels of political knowledge.”

Origine: Losing Confidence - Power, politics, And The Crisis In Canadian Democracy (2009), Chapter 6, What If They held an Election and No One Came?, p. 159

“I participate, therefore I am.”

Origine: Losing Confidence - Power, politics, And The Crisis In Canadian Democracy (2009), Chapter 1, The Degradation of Canadian Democracy, p. 15

“The role of the individual MP has been sidelined by the power of the Cabinet, and now by the PM alone.”

Origine: Losing Confidence - Power, politics, And The Crisis In Canadian Democracy (2009), Chapter 2, Parliament as Anachronism?, p. 54

“Little wonder that the dumbing down of the political discourse, the attack ads and war rooms reign triumphant. The fifth estate is an enabler in this addiction to political trivia in place of reasoned debate.”

Origine: Losing Confidence - Power, politics, And The Crisis In Canadian Democracy (2009), Chapter 3, The Americanization of Our Election Process, p. 91

“The increasing prominence of a presidential-style prime minister is steadily denigrating the traditions and institutions of Canadian democracy.”

Introduction, p. 8
Losing Confidence - Power, politics, And The Crisis In Canadian Democracy (2009)

“We Canadians think that Canada is a modern, well informed democracy. We look down our noses at the dumbed down content on Fox News and CNN, without noticing that we are rapidly heading in the same direction.”

Origine: Losing Confidence - Power, politics, And The Crisis In Canadian Democracy (2009), Chapter 4, Democracy and the Media, p. 123

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