Author Archives: J.W.J. Bowden

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About J.W.J. Bowden

My area of academic expertise lies in Canadian political institutions, especially the Crown, political executive, and conventions of Responsible Government; since 2011, I have made a valuable contribution to the scholarship by having been published and cited extensively. I’m also a contributing editor to the Dorchester Review and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law.

PROC Examines the Retroactive Prorogation Rationale After All

Posted on 2020/12/23 by J.W.J. Bowden

PROC decided to study the Retroactive Prorogation Rationale (Sessional Paper 8560-432-1261-01_e) in 2020 after all. Committees tend not to update the official transcripts (Evidence) until two weeks later, so I misinterpreted and missed some of these developments last month by … Continue reading →

Posted in Crown (Powers and Office), Prorogation | 2 Comments

Thomas D’Arcy McGee on Literature as National Identity

Posted on 2020/12/01 by J.W.J. Bowden

The Dorchester Review will soon publish my piece on Thomas D’Arcy McGee and the Kingdom of Canada. In anticipation of that article, I would like to share with you the section that I had to cut early on in the … Continue reading →

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PROC Sentences the Retroactive Prorogation Rationale to a Quiet Bureaucratic Death

Posted on 2020/11/30 by J.W.J. Bowden

Sometimes I forgot to follow up on these developments right away, and the obscura and minutia on which I normally focus here on Parliamentum usually goes unreported in the press, too. The House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and … Continue reading →

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The Trudeau Government’s Retroactive Prorogation Rationale Under Standing Order 32(7)

Posted on 2020/10/29 by J.W.J. Bowden

Introduction In my previous post, I recounted how the House of Commons had added in Standing Order 32(7) in June 2017, on the initiative of the Trudeau government and its parliamentary majority at the time, which now obliges the government … Continue reading →

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Justin Trudeau Has Made Prorogation Great Again

Posted on 2020/10/27 by J.W.J. Bowden

Update: The Government House Leader tabled the Retroactive Prorogation Rationale in the House of Commons on 28 October. Introduction On 19 August 2020, the exigencies of a minority parliament and global pandemic brought about the first prorogation of the Parliament … Continue reading →

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