When Americans ask how our political system differs from theirs, I say that Canadians have an elected dictatorship. They seem aghast to hear the British Parliamentary system described this way, but when the governing party has a clear majority, that’s what it is.

Right now, the minority government does give the other parties some power, but Big Pauly is still the "head of the family".

Link: andrewcoyne.com: Politics makes strange goodfellas.

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