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COMMENTARY: Three legs hold the P.E.I. political stool

There are casualties in every failing political system. Not just elections lost or policies reversed, but people. Party workers who believed in something. Public servants trying to do their jobs well. Elected members hearing difficult truths from constituents with nowhere left to take them.

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I have been active in Island politics for many years. What I am watching now troubles me deeply.

Effective government is not complicated in principle. It requires honest, two-way communication at every level. Leaders who listen. Systems that carry information upward as readily as they push direction downward. When that process breaks down, the structure itself begins to fail, quietly at first, then all at once.

Leader-centric system

What we increasingly have on Prince Edward Island is a top-down, leader-centric system. Significant decisions are made at the executive level and handed down with the expectation that everyone below will simply........

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