house of commons

The politics and the possibility of reform

Tim Harper notes the eerie silence around the nation’s legislatures. Tim notes Mark Jarvis’ writing on the BC legislature. Here...

The House of Commons was in session for 129 days in 2012, which makes 2012 the second-most present year for the House since the...

Samuel Kirz compares the trustworthiness of MPs to the trustworthiness of the jobs that MPs used to hold. Nick Taylor-Vaisey...

Conservative backbencher Brent Rathgeber goes off message, suggests free votes for all MPs

The House had two reasons this past fall to debate repealing and replacing the Indian Act: a private member’s bill from...

Scott Clark and Peter DeVries explain how to fix the budget process. Separately, they also pan the finance committee’s pre-budget...

Paul Adams proposes seats for aboriginals in the House of Commons. More on New Zealand’s Maori MPs here and here .

In the beginning, there was disagreement. The first session of the first Parliament of the Dominion of Canada was called for the...

The At Issue panel takes viewer questions. I’d like the Speaker to be more assertive on a couple fronts, but, in the context of...