On procedure and politics

Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined

Fixed-term Parliaments – Addendum

A comment on my earlier post suggesting that the reason why the Lords defeated the Fixed-Term Parliaments Bill was because fixed-term parliaments was not a promise made by either the Liberal Democrats or the Conservatives in their 2010 manifestos. This, however, is incorrect. Both parties promised fixed-term parliaments. The Lib Dems did not indicate how [...]

Canada Votes 2011 – Comparing Federal Party Platforms

(Note: This post is about the platforms of the FEDERAL parties running in the May 2011 FEDERAL election. 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. [...]

Party Platforms – the Canadian experience (federal)

(Note: This post has NOTHING to do with provincial party platforms. It is about the federal parties. 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. If [...]

Lessons Learned – Part 3

This will probably be my final installment discussing some of the findings in the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee’s Report, Lessons from the process of Government formation after the 2010 General Election. If you missed them, here are the links to Part 1 and Part 2. In this post, I will look [...]

On broken campaign promises

I’ve written about recall legislation previously. Speaking personally, I am not convinced that it is either necessary or a good idea. If poorly thought out, recall legislation may cause more problems than it purports to address, meaning that it could be easily abused. And if the situations where recall could apply are too limited, it [...]

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