In today's society political decisions exemplifies a paradox. To illustrate, this paradox reveals the ideology that politics is the underlying factor of power, with the autonomy of utility. Added to this, ethics is the basis of principle, which is lead by moralities. The correlations between the two variables are the cornerstone of transparency and accountability. In this case, federal cabinet ministers misused their public authority, and were not upholding the doctrine of ministerial responsibility. For these reasons, there was a lack of confidence in the government's ability, which resulted in a low voters turnout. In fact, the 2011 federal election recorded the second lowest voter turnout at 53.8 per cent (Unknown, 2012). Inevitably, the public's stance of the government has been negative. Nevertheless, there are political figures that exercise their autonomy with the goal of changing the public's perception. For example, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is constantly projecting new goals to accomplish by influencing, and elaborating unrealistic hopes to the public. Relatively speaking, Prime Minster Harper came to the conclusion to promote his "Stand up for Canada" campaign from 2006 to express transparency and accountability in the Canadian government. His catchphrase consisted of an, "accountable government that will get things done for all of us". Specifically, he discussed ongoing concerns such as transparency and accountability in Parliament, providing the government a new outlook, and rectifying the public's viewpoint of sovereignty to the mindset of responsibility of choices being made (Tough, 2011). Because of this, Prime Minister Harper's deceitfulness results in greater distress for hopeful citizens. Therefore, the government should be more open and accountable and this is evident through innovation.
The government should be more open and accountable through innovation especially through prior ministers, phrasing of terminology, non- departmental agencies, House of Commons, senate, deputy minister, and the amount of seats in House of Commons.
