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Just a few off-the-cuff thoughts on recent parliamentary events. I loved – LOVED – the procedural trickery that the NDP & Conservatives pulled on the Liberals on Monday involving bill C-10. The substance of what transpired was this: 1) Alexandre … Continue reading
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It’s been a couple of weeks since the parliamentary report on medically-assisted dying was released. Andrew Coyne has IMO written some pretty perceptive columns on the the topic; for example, he accurately foresaw the impossibility of limiting medically-assisted death to … Continue reading
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Right after the election, the rumbling for electoral reform began. The impetus was 1) the Liberals’ manufactured majority, and 2) their promise to replace Canada’s electoral system from First-Past-the-Post to … well, something else. I wrote a blog post noting … Continue reading
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The NDP clearly hope to use the Liberals’ promise to effect electoral reform to replace FPTP with a mixed-member proprtional system (MMP). This is precisely what the NDP promised in its election platform (http://xfer.ndp.ca/2015/2015-Full-Platform-EN.pdf), and it is why the NDP … Continue reading
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An aside before today’s main post: I hear a lot of commentators describing what the Liberals are trying to effect as “democratic reform”. That’s not quite so: the Liberals are trying to effect electoral reform. The phrase “democratic reform” is … Continue reading
