It’s interesting to hear the president of a country that is only nominally democratic exhort the citizens of another that have just recently deposed their despot to embrace democracy.Believe it or not Mr. Obama, there are some of us who take the time t…
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the disgruntled democrat: Elizabeth May Speaks to the Damage First-Past-The-Post Imposes on Canadian Political Culture
On Monday, January 31, 2011, we had the privilege of Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada speak to our gathering to learn more about the Quebec Charter Challenge of the voting system. I invite you to watch it because she addresses some i…
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: Pushing the Values of the Charter into the Heart of Politics in Canada
Political institutions provide the rules for the way the political game is played. Here in Canada, the rules were inherited from our colonial past and have evolved somewhat over our relatively short history as a nation-state.The most significant chang…
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