Category Archives: Reform

Celebrate Dominion Day With The Latest Issue of The Dorchester Review

Posted on 2020/07/01 by

The latest issue of The Dorchester Review is now available online here once you subscribe here to receive physical copies of the magazine in the mail as well. I contributed an article to this issue on a lesser known aspect of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Dorchester Review, Electoral Reform, History of British North America, Reform | 1 Comment

An Outbreak of Snap Election Fever During a Pandemic

Posted on 2020/05/28 by

Whenever Canadian journalists get bored or run out of other things on which to write, they often engage in idle speculation about snap elections. This time John Ivison of The National Post became Patient Zero in this latest strain of … Continue reading →

Posted in Dissolution, Fixed-Date Elections | 2 Comments

The Fixed-Date Election Law Forced Saskatchewan’s Upcoming Pandemic Election

Posted on 2020/05/17 by

Introduction Brian Pallister’s unnecessary early election last year – done ostensibly to prevent an election from occurring during the celebrations of Manitoba’s sesquicentennial in 2020 and to avoid accusations that his government would short-circuit rules against advertising to benefit the … Continue reading →

Posted in Crown (Powers and Office), Dissolution, Fixed-Date Elections | 3 Comments

Electoral Reform: Quebec Will Hold a Referendum With a Clear Question

Posted on 2020/05/01 by

Last spring, I wrote about the prospect that the Legault government in Quebec would implement mixed-member proportional representation in time for the next provincial general election scheduled for 2022 in a piece for Policy Options. Recent developments answer this question … Continue reading →

Posted in Electoral Reform, Reform | 6 Comments

Extra-Constitutional Reform of the Senate of Canada

Posted on 2019/12/27 by

The latest issue of The Dorchester Review includes my piece on “The Founders’ Senate.” In this article, I outline how the Senate of Canada, and the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada, functioned as partisan legislative bodies from the … Continue reading →

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