If this article is anywhere close to true, it describes a government that is both dysfunctional and does not represent the will of the Canadian people in any credible way. Of course, it may be a bit overdone, but it's hard to overemphasize how such things as having a PM-appointed Senate and MPs subject to dismissal by party leaders (not the electorate) must isolate the people from their government.
Both are true. Unfortunately, the Canadian right is split between the brain-dead Progressive Conservatives and the Alliance, a party unable to gain a real foothold in the east. So the Liberal misrule continues.