Canadian Politics Today

But how do you set up Cabinets etc?  Who do you hold accountable if everyone is an independent? I’m not trying to through cold water on the principle, just trying to see how it could work.

Try imagining how yourself. I'd like to see how it would work too. I'm just one guy bringing one perspective to the issue of better governance. Much of that was shaped during a period of upheaval and activism stemming from the way fisheries were being managed on the west coast.   

I admit what I'm suggesting would require a vast complex and highly unlikely reshaping of our government likely involving changes to our constitution and even our confederation. I realize it's a desperate suggestion but still probably a lot easier than achieving better accountability by outlawing the secrecy or 'confidence' politicians and lobbyists bring to the public's domain.  That single simple measure would probably negate much of the need for anything else I'm suggesting. In any case I'm pretty sure we could assign a couple of undergrads aspiring to be policy wonks to the task of writing up a set of recommendations and such that would tease out the details.

In answer to your question though, a cabinet meeting is or could be little more than a bunch of department heads getting together.  Why does this have to be attended to with a bunch unnecessary politicizing? To demonstrate leadership apparently - something I just don't get, at all.