VOTE: Senate Reform?
It’s summer in Ottawa, and the temperature is heating up on an unlikely issue – senate reform. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have begun a campaign to bring incremental reform to Canada’s upper house: reforms billed as non-constitutional, and non-controversial. But are they? A number of different points of view have emerged. Let’s look at the... Read More
VOTE: Extraordinary Convention?
On May 14th, the following letter was sent to members of the Liberal Party of Canada: Dear colleague and party member, The Liberal Party of Canada is setting a course to enable your voice to be heard and to have your actions direct our party as we move forward together. Our party’s constitution, most recently amended by delegates to the 2009 Vancouver Convention, prescribes... Read More
