UncategorizedA week and a half in the public life of Michael IgnatieffSuggesting new constraints on a Prime Minister’s power to request prorogation? Pitching specific measures to deal with...
OttawaWill the last country on earth to use first-past-the-post please turn out the lights?British PM plans to ditch first-past-the-post So that’s reform of the upper house, more power for MPs, and electoral reform, in...
GeneralNDP challenge Harper to do what he said he’d doFrom a new NDP press release: I have a column in the Citizen today arguing that if Harper is serious about Senate reform, the...
GeneralPut me in next year, coach!Jacques Demers will no longer have to choose between the highest echelons of Canadian government and his beloved Habs
Uncategorized’A better democracy’Conservative election platform, 2006 . Canada is a democracy, yet our democratic system has not kept pace with the needs of a...
GeneralOn Two-tier SenatorsAnd so, with the economy booming and the country’s books shipshape, we can now return to the pressing topic of Senate...
OttawaPacking the Senate to reform itAbout those impending Senate appointments : It’s certainly another broken promise, which if memory serves was to appoint only...