Last night, we talked about the importance of elected politicians being the ones in charge, not the unelected bureaucrats.
Regardless of the issue, regardless of who is in power this is how our system works. We don’t let unelected bureaucrats run the show, especially not the ones with guns. We are not a banana republic.
Before I get to the latest developments in this fight between unelected bureaucrats and elected officials over the back door gun registry I want to focus on this principle of who is in charge because too many don’t understand it.
We elect governments, they run the show. Bureaucrats make recommendations to government on what government should do and then the politicians, our elected leaders make decisions.
On the front page of today’s Toronto Globe and Mail there is a front story that shows that the paper that likes to think of itself as the paper of record does not get this basic principle of our system. Read more…
