OttawaUPDATED: Oh, Canadians. Why must you confound conventional wisdom like this?Nearly half of Canadians support the idea of a coalition government
GeneralStill talking about the MadnessMy review of Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis is in the current issue of the LRC, on newstands everywhere. Christopher Moore has...
GeneralThe Madness RevisitedTime to check in on what those useless humanities profs and social scientists are up to. Oh look: UofT Press has put out an...
OttawaThe Macleans.ca Interview: Power to the ParliamentariansA round robin Q&A with four of the constitutional experts who joined with more than thirty of their colleagues to sign an open...
OttawaAbout that traitorous, illegitimate, antidemocratic Ekos poll ...... you know, the one we’ve all been yammering on about over at Colleague Wherry’s place? Anyway, the background data is now...
GeneralInterview with a ParliamentarianHere’s a link to my Q&A with Peter Russell, one of our foremost constitutional scholars who has a new book out on the virtues of...
GeneralThe Madness: Democrats vs ParliamentariansAs we lead up to the return of the House, battle lines are being drawn over the legitimacy of the forgotten-but-not-dead...
GeneralHonour Amongst the ParliamentariansHere are the best two sentences I read this week: "But even if better practices can be instituted to guide the parliamentary head...
GeneralThe Upside of The MadnessWhile everyone was staring at their televisions yesterday waiting for the PM to emerge from Rideau Hall to tell us all whassup, I...
GeneralThe Harper DoctrineI’m trying to piece together Harper’s theory of democratic legitimacy in a minority situation in Canada, given the existence...