Mark D. Jarvis

The absentee B.C. legislature

Why we should be worried about a government that sits for only 19 days in a full calendar year

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Don’t get cocky

Mark Jarvis manages to take issue with both sides of the Brigette DePape debate.

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A guide to democracy

The Public Policy Forum has released a summary of a roundtable conducted in March to discuss the loosely agreed upon rules by which we govern ourselves. This follows a workshop organized by constitutional scholar Peter Russell in February.

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The House: Three-part reform

Rather than simply lament for how little attention is paid to the institution, I thought I’d ask some smart people if they had anything to say in response to my piece about the state of the House of Commons. Over the next little while, those responses will appear here. Next up, Mark D. Jarvis.