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Why is Canadian politics so full of lawyers? I’ve never seen so many lawyers in politics anywhere else.
It's like that everywhere. Legislature is a natural progression for lawyers because legislature writes the laws that lawyers apply in practice. Lawyer and legislator are like different positions in the same field.
Lawyer here. The above is the answer that most lawyers give. That's most of it, but also you have lawyers which are notoriously power hungry and narcissistic, which is also strongly correlated with politics.
True but that can be found anywhere - business execs, military officers, public sector bureaucrats. All of those fields are conducive to power hungry narcissism.
It's often said that you you have to be a narcissistic sociopath to want to become the leader of a country because who else would see themselves as deserving of that level of power?
Yeah good point. I think many people go into it for the right reasons, and get corrupted along the way. You pretty much have to play the game to win.