WATCH: Former Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber on his new book, Irresponsible Government, and how it explains what he believes happened on Parliament Hill last week.
OTTAWA — There has been a slow – but constant – development toward “irresponsible government” in Canada, said Brent Rathgeber, an Alberta MP who left the Conservative caucus last year, citing a lack of commitment to transparency in the government.
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“Over 50 years, we’ve seen a trend where the government has ceased to be accountable to the people’s elected representatives in Parliament, and they feel that they are accountable to no one other than themselves,” he said in an interview on The West Block with Tom Clark.
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“The government doesn’t feel that it’s accountable to Parliament and, as a result, we have irresponsible government where Parliament is no longer supreme. We have, sadly, in my view, the development of executive government,” he said.
Rathgeber recently published a book titled Irresponsible Government, in which he looks at “the failure of MPs” to hold the government to account.
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