Electoral Reform
Prest and Tenove: Here's how to protect Canadian democracy in 2018
In 2017, the vulnerability of democracy around the world became painfully clear.
Canada seems an island of political stability, and yet we face many of the same risks as elsewhere.
Liveblog Recap: Karina Gould talks democratic institutions at Senate QP
-
@Kady: Here's how Trudeau could say sorry for breaking his electoral reform promise
-
PM heads to Nunavut as MPs debate whether his government 'misled' Canadians on electoral reform
-
Electoral Reform: NDP forces vote over whether Liberals 'misled' Canadians
-
Electoral reform: Liberals spent at least $4.1M consulting Canadians on the policy that would never ...
-
The demise of electoral reform: we should have seen it coming
Does abandoning electoral reform really matter?
-
Don't put government in charge of electoral reform
-
Some questions for the new minister on electoral reform
-
The all-party electoral reform committee was doomed from the start
-
Some real lessons we can take from the electoral reform fiasco
-
Don’t blame electoral reform committee for ‘ridiculous’ survey questions, enraged MP says
-
Breaking that electoral reform promise is dangerous in an unstable world, Liberals
-
Digital technology is no magic wand for engaging citizens in electoral reform
-
Reid: There's consensus on one part of electoral reform – holding a referendum
-
Maryam Monsef apologizes to electoral reform committee for Commons outburst
-
Letters Today's letters: Electoral reform, Cuba, the château
On Thursday, Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef publicly bad-mouthed the work of a multi-party committee her government had set up to study voting reform in Canada. -
Columnists Loewen: What if democracy isn't all it's cracked up to be?
What’s so special about democracy? The question is no longer simply academic. Around the world, voters in democracies are electing leaders who refuse to recognize basic democratic norms. -
Columnists Cullen: Electoral reform – now we have a blueprint to make every vote count
This week, an all-party House of Commons committee made a historic decision for the future of Canadian democracy: to evolve our democratic system into the 21st century; to adopt a proportional voting system for our federal elections. -
Columnists Elizabeth May: We've got two years to get the public fully involved in electoral reform
Any day now, a postcard will arrive in your mailbox to invite you to participate in the single most important democratic reform in a generation: moving to ensure that in Canada “every vote counts. -
Editorials Editorial: Now the prime minister can back down on voting reform. Will he?
Let’s admit it: The House of Commons special committee on electoral reform didn’t really agree on the key principles in its report released Thursday – despite the veneer of consensus that opposition members struggled valiantly to present. -
Politics Read the full electoral reform committee report, plus Liberal and NDP/Green opinions
Recommendations: Supplementary report from Liberal committee members: Supplementary report from the New Democrat and Green committee members: Full report: -
Politics Get excited, everyone! It's Electoral Reform Report Release Day!
After months of hearings followed by weeks of intensive closed-door negotiations. the all-party committee on electoral reform is set to release the results of its investigation into how, exactly, the government could – or should – honour Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s oft-repeated campaign pledge to make the 2015 election the last to be conducted using a first-past-the-post voting system. -
Politics @Kady: What to expect when you're expecting... a committee report on electoral reform
With less than 24 hours to go until the all-party special committee on electoral reform releases its much-anticipated report on how – or, indeed, if – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pledge to make the 2015 election the last to be held under a first-past-the-post method of counting up the votes, it seemed like the perfect time to write up a quick preview on what to expect from the parliamentary reveal. -
Editorials Editorial: Electoral reform locally? Apparently, it just can't be done!
Electoral reform – or the lack of it – will be all the fashion on Parliament Hill Thursday as a special committee of MPs unveils its views on improvements to the federal voting system. -
Columnists Miljan and Jackson: Here's why the Liberals don't have the mandate to unilaterally change the ...
As a candidate, Justin Trudeau promised that the 2015 election would be the last under our first-past-the-post electoral system.