Consensus Government
Between 3 October and 7 November 2011, there will be 5 provincial and 2 territorial elections in Canada. Voters in the provinces of Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Saskatchewan, as well as Yukon and the Northwest Territories will all be headed to the polls. What some may not know is that [...]
Keyword post: Short answers to various queries
The following are answers to questions based on recent keyword search activity which has led people to this blog. 1. How many signatures does an e-petition require for it to be debated in the UK Parliament? First of all, there is no guarantee that any petition will be debated in Parliament. Under the UK Government’s [...]
PEI 2011 Political Party Platform Comparisons
(Note: If you are looking for party platform comparisons for the 6 October 2011 Ontario provincial election, please see this post. If you are looking for platform comparisons for the 4 October 2011 Manitoba provincial election, click here.) As was the case during the recent federal election here in Canada, many people are now looking [...]
Quote of the day
You can sign every human rights declaration in the world but if you stand by and watch people being slaughtered in their own country, when you could act then what are those signatures really worth? – Rt. Hon. David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, address to the UN General Assembly, 22 September 2011 [...]
The Coalition Government’s working majority
Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart have prepared a very interesting analysis on the subject of the Coalition Government’s Commons’ majority. As stated in the blog post, the Coalition enjoys a 76 seat majority: 363 government MPs (306 Conservatives and 57 Liberal Democrats) out of 650, which leaves 287 non-government MPs. Of that 287, however, five seats are [...]
Quote of the day
Last year I walked through the door of No 10. But we all walked through a kind of door together. To being, once again, a party of national government. So we must move now beyond the reflexes of opposition to the responsibilities of government, and the opportunities of government, too. – Leader of the Liberal [...]
Leaders in search of parties
Liberal Democrat party leader Nick Clegg held a Q&A session during his party’s fall conference. At times, Clegg seemed almost impatient with some of the questions party members were asking, even lecturing one of them for not listening to the answer being provided. As noted in the Guardian: The Nick Clegg 2011 model is not [...]
Has the Backbench Business Commitee been a success?
A reader of this blog asked if the UK House of Commons Backbench Business Committee has been a success. This is a difficult question to answer because I am not certain how one would measure – or even define – success in this context. For those unfamiliar with the Backbench Business Committee, this is a [...]
Manitoba 2011 Political Party Platform Comparisons
(Note: If you are looking for party platform comparisons for the 6 October 2011 Ontario provincial election, please see this post. If you are looking for platform comparisons for the 3 October 2011 PEI provincial election, click here.) As was the case during the recent federal election here in Canada, many people are now looking [...]
Ontario 2011 Political Party Platform comparisons
(Note: If you are looking for platform comparisons for the 4 October 2011 Manitoba provincial election, click here. If you are looking for platform comparisons for the 3 October 2011 PEI provincial election, click here.) As was the case during the recent federal election here in Canada, many people are now looking for a site [...]
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