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REAL NEWS:<\/strong> Harold Lovell, former political leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP), says his just-concluded visit to Toronto, Canada, was mentally stimulating, as it afforded him the opportunity for both academic and socio-political discourse.<\/p>

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Lovell was invited by the University of Toronto to present a lecture, \u201cDemocratic Politics: \u00a0Legacies & Critical Reflections in Antigua and Barbuda, the Caribbean Rim and Beyond,\u201d last Thursday, May 11.<\/p>\n

At the outset, however, Lovell told his audience, which included doctoral students, that he would be inserting the word \u201ccontradictions,\u201d so that he could look \u201cnot only at the challenges but also the contradictions of democratic politics.\u201d<\/p>

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He explained his use of the term \u201cdemocratic politics\u201d as a reference to the British Westminster system of government.<\/p>

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This system, he said, \u201chas been adopted but has hardly been\u00a0adapted<\/em>\u00a0to our needs and in our image and likeness.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was taken from the green hills, vales and valleys of England and transplanted to the cane fields and the sun-lit beaches of the Caribbean. \u00a0In doing so, we have inherited all the contradictions which make sense to the British but which seem to defy common sense and logic.\u201d<\/p>

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Among the contradictions, Lovell said, is \u201cour bi-cameral legislature, taken lock, stock and barrel, a mirror image of the House of Lords and the House of Commons.\u201d<\/p>\n

He notes that, in theory, \u201cthe Senate is the Upper House; but \u00a0in reality, in the ranking of power and influence, the Senate is really the Lower House.\u201d<\/p>

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Speaking to the doctrine of separation of powers, Lovell, a former minister of government, asked: \u00a0\u201cWhat kind of separation can there really be in our small legislative chambers when more than half the House of Representatives sits in the Cabinet as the Executive Branch of government?\u201d<\/p>

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And as far as the authority ascribed to the head of State, Lovell said it could be considered a \u201cconstitutional fiction,\u201d given the absence of real power.<\/p>\n

He also noted the glaring contradiction of \u201can electoral system where one party can get 45 percent of the popular vote and end up with 100 percent of the political power.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his nearly hour-long presentation, Lovell traced the socio-political trajectory of Antigua and Barbuda, including the inherited norms of colonialism; the rise of the unions, including the Teachers Struggle; the the challenges of media liberalization, with Observer Media as his example; and the perversion of democracy.<\/p>\n

Within the lecture, he used examples from other Caribbean countries \u2013 in particular, the Grenada Revolution led by the late Maurice Bishop \u2013 and quoted generously from regional \u00a0academics.<\/p>\n

In short, Lovell concluded that the Westminster system \u201chas outlived its usefulness and what is required is continued social reckoning to address the challenges and contradictions of this system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking with REAL News since his return, he reports that \u201cthe lecture was quite comprehensive; a great deal of research went into it, and, eventually, I\u2019ll be developing it into a book.\u201d<\/p>\n

A review of the presentation, from a foreign student, was particularly gratifying, he says, and he shares the comments, which describe the event as an \u201cinspiring intervention\u201d and \u201cthe best lecture\u201d the young man had heard in his five months in Canada.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, on Saturday, Lovell met, more informally, with Antiguans and Barbudans living in the Toronto area.<\/p>\n

In what, he tells our Newsroom, was a \u201cvery interactive\u201d session, Lovell says he spoke on the issues currently challenging Antigua and Barbuda \u2013 starting with the costly and lengthy process of obtaining a Canadian visa.<\/p>\n

He notes that, in his case, he had to travel to and from the Canadian Embassy in Trinidad via New York, and, owing to the limited travel options, spend a week in the Southern Caribbean country.<\/p>\n

Together, Lovell says, he and the audience looked at other quality-of-life problems \u2013 including the water shortage, poor garbage collection, and rising crime \u2013 and then the regional and international implications of the Antigua Airways debacle and the smuggling of West African migrants into other territories.<\/p>\n

In the recent election campaign, Lovell and the UPP worked closely with the Diaspora Progressives with the stated intentions of deepening the relationship between nationals at home and abroad and involving the Diaspora in the country\u2019s decision-making.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, Lovell says he is extremely grateful for the group\u2019s continued involvement and its invitation to Canada. Instrumental in the invitation to present at the university and to meet with the nationals abroad, he says, was Akil Jabari, who describes himself as \u201ca proud Ovals man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lovell also extends his gratitude to the University of Toronto and the faculty members who hosted and participated in the lecture.<\/p>\n

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