The Liberals killed a bill promoting gender parity in politics. They were wrong.
Why the arguments against a bill that would have penalized parties for failing to run equal lists of male and female candidates don’t make sense
Kennedy Stewart
One way to promote gender parity in politics: financial penalties
NDP MP Kennedy Stewart’s private member’s bill would penalize political parties who don’t run gender-balanced slates of candidates
Direct democracy arrives at the House of Commons
Ottawa’s e-petition site offers Canadians a new way to control the agenda in the House
A modest proposal for the NDP: Unmuzzle the government economists
Just how committed would the NDP be to free-speaking bureaucrats?
Team Reform: What’s on offer and who is supporting what
The Reform Act picks up supporters
The hottest fall fashions in parliamentary reform
The Senate might never change, but here is what might
The politics of science
An NDP MP sets out some principles
Whatever happened to the Reform party?
The House considers e-petitions
This week in parliamentary reform
Expenses, audits and petitions
The Backbench Spring: Russ Hiebert speaks up
Another government backbencher asserts his rights