I look forward to the work that’s underway in what the Premier was saying, but I believe we do have to work together. We have to stop driving these wedges between one another. The divisiveness has to stop. The adversarial approach has to stop. The way that I can see that really stopping is with Cabinet; and Cabinet having more free votes, less Cabinet solidarity, Cabinet Ministers able to speak their own mind. I don’t know if there’s anything written where in our system of government, in a consensus style of government, true consensus, there isn’t any Cabinet solidarity and there shouldn’t be any Cabinet solidarity. I’d like to ask the Premier whether or not he would investigate whether or not we could take away this Cabinet solidarity and allow Ministers more freedom to speak their mind in this House.
David Ramsay on Question 160-16(3): State Of Consensus Government
In the Legislative Assembly on February 19th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Question 160-16(3): State Of Consensus Government
Oral Questions
February 18th, 2009
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