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	<title>On procedure and politics</title>
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		<title>Parliamentary reform would work</title>
		<link>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/05/14/parliamentary-reform-would-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radical Centrist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backbench Business Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[committees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[giving way]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Business Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ministerial statements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[party discipline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[question period]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK procedure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article, Don Lenihan argues that parliamentary reform won&#8217;t &#8220;force a government to engage in meaningful debate&#8221; and reverse the fact that Parliament is, in his words &#8220;broken&#8221;. Lenihan writes: MPs like Michael Chong and Nathan Cullen remain hopeful. They think that the right combination of rules and procedures can fix Parliament. Unfortunately, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Short History of Equalization, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/05/12/a-short-history-of-equalization-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/05/12/a-short-history-of-equalization-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 14:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radical Centrist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[provinces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transfer payments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As discussed in Part 1, the equalization program was significantly overhauled in 2007. This was largely because it had become, in the minds of many critics, an overly-complex mishmash of special deals and formulae that benefited some more than others and pleased no one. From 1982 to 2004, in general terms, the program used a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Short History of Equalization, part 1: 1930-2006</title>
		<link>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/05/12/a-short-history-of-equalization-part-1-1930-2006/</link>
		<comments>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/05/12/a-short-history-of-equalization-part-1-1930-2006/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 14:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radical Centrist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[provinces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transfer payments]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thoughtundermined.com/?p=5208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Rowell-Sirois Commission In the 1930s, after several provinces had gone bankrupt trying to cope with effects of the Great Depression, the federal government established a Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial relations (the Rowell-Sirois Commission). In its 1940 report, the Commission concluded that the Constitution did not give the provinces sufficient taxing power to meet their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green papers, white papers and draft bills</title>
		<link>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/05/11/green-papers-white-papers-and-draft-bills/</link>
		<comments>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/05/11/green-papers-white-papers-and-draft-bills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radical Centrist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consultation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[draft bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green papers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white papers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thoughtundermined.com/?p=5198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have come across references to government &#8220;Green Papers&#8221; or &#8220;White Papers&#8221; and wondered what these are. What follows is a brief overview of both. Green Papers, like white papers, originated in Great Britain. The term was coined by London newspapers from the colour of the covers of this type of document. The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why a referendum on Lords reform is a bad idea</title>
		<link>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/05/11/why-a-referendum-on-lords-reform-is-a-bad-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/05/11/why-a-referendum-on-lords-reform-is-a-bad-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radical Centrist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitutional reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House of Lords reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[referendums]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On 23 April 2012, the Joint Select Committee reviewing the Government&#8217;s Draft House of Lords Reform Bill released its report. Real life has not allowed me sufficient time to properly read through the entire report, available here, however I do want to take a few minutes to focus on one recommendation the Committee put forward, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prorogation Ceremony</title>
		<link>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/05/02/prorogation-ceremony/</link>
		<comments>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/05/02/prorogation-ceremony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 19:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radical Centrist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prorogation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[royal assent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK procedure]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thoughtundermined.com/?p=5162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Canadians are used to thinking of prorogation of Parliament as something rather secretive, done behind closed doors. Because of this, it might be of interest to some to actually watch a prorogation ceremony as it recently unfolded in the UK House of Lords. Prorogation is the formal ending of a session of Parliament, either by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Queen&#8217;s Speech</title>
		<link>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/04/26/the-queens-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/04/26/the-queens-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radical Centrist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen's Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Speech from the Throne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The UK House of Commons will prorogue on 1 May 2012, and open a new session of Parliament on 9 May 2012 with a State Opening. A State Opening takes place on the first day of a new parliamentary session or shortly after a general election. The last State Opening took place on Tuesday 25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equalization Questions and Misconceptions</title>
		<link>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/04/24/equalization-misconceptions/</link>
		<comments>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/04/24/equalization-misconceptions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radical Centrist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[provinces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transfer payments]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thoughtundermined.com/?p=5119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Equalization is the Government of Canada&#8217;s transfer program for addressing fiscal disparities among provinces. Equalization payments enable less prosperous provincial governments to provide their residents with public services that are reasonably comparable to those in other provinces, at reasonably comparable levels of taxation. Not every province receives equalization transfers. Six provinces will receive equalization payments in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you like to help with some research?</title>
		<link>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/04/11/would-you-like-to-help-with-some-research/</link>
		<comments>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/04/11/would-you-like-to-help-with-some-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radical Centrist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[admin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parliamentary websites]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thoughtundermined.com/?p=5041</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am trying to write a post comparing the websites of various parliaments, namely those of Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. However, I use these sites regularly as part of my work, and so it is fairly easy for me to find what I need to find on these websites. I am interested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislating free votes</title>
		<link>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/04/11/legislating-free-votes/</link>
		<comments>http://thoughtundermined.com/2012/04/11/legislating-free-votes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radical Centrist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alberta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[committee reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free votes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open primaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[party discipline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whipped votes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thoughtundermined.com/?p=5059</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have written a number of posts on that touch on the issue of whipped votes and MPs toeing the party line (for example, see here, here, here, here and here). During the current election campaign in the Canadian province of Alberta, the Wildrose Party has promised, if it forms the government, that it will [...]]]></description>
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