Category Archives: Reform

Wade MacLauchlan of PEI Has Become the First Premier to Ignore a Fixed-Date Election Law Twice

Posted on 2019/04/07 by

Introduction Events have answered a question that I posed last year here on Parliamentum on 24 May 2018. I wondered, “Will Wade MacLauchlan Become the First Premier to Ignore a Fixed-Date Elections Law Twice?” Yes. Wade MacLauchlan has become the … Continue reading →

Posted in Crown (Powers and Office), Dissolution, Fixed-Date Elections, Reform | 11 Comments

The Legault Government Might Actually Implement Mixed-Member Proportional Representation in Quebec

Posted on 2019/03/10 by

Judging from some recent reports in Quebec’s French-language press, I think that there is a good chance that Premier Legault’s government will in fact pursue electoral reform and that the National Assembly will switch Quebec’s provincial electoral system from single-member … Continue reading →

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Politicos No Longer Give the Fixed-Date Elections Law a Second Thought

Posted on 2018/09/11 by

Robin Sears, a New Democrat now of the Earnscliffe Strategy Group and a look-alike of Franklin D. Roosevelt, has joined with Susan Delacourt, Chantal Hebert, and Andrew Coyne in musing about or overtly calling for an early dissolution and snap … Continue reading →

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When Snap Elections Are Good and Just

Posted on 2018/08/15 by

Introduction Journalists who cover politics often suffer from crippling boredom in the summer months when Parliament sits not and no longer provides them with a steady stream of headline fodder. Susan Delacourt and Andrew Coyne in June 2018 started raising … Continue reading →

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What Does “Calling an Early Election” Mean Anyway?

Posted on 2018/08/08 by

Introduction Judging by recent media reports, the answer depends upon the length of the writ and not necessarily on the date of the election itself, as the case of Quebec in 2018 and Canada in 2015 demonstrate.

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