Samara’s series on Redesigning Parliament continues. My
pieces on citizen’s voice are now up on Samara’s blog. There has been advocacy
for less party control over MPs, improving the jobs of MPs, and looking at other parliaments for lessons.
In local news Brampton’s City Council has passed a strict bylaw limiting the expansion of homes. This seems like a badly conceived bylaw, in my opinion. First, it restricts the
freedom of property owners to develop their homes. Second, it seems to me that
older neighbourhoods in Brampton will need to be revitalized to maintain their
property values.
Polling shows that the public supports the idea of new taxes to fund public transit.
I featured this piece in my blog post Tuesday. Eric
Grenier from 308 puts together the numbers for the chances that backbenchers can find their way in cabinet.
After several embarrassing stories surfaced about the
Senate there have been greater calls to end the anachronistic chamber and
abolish the Senate.
If MPs want to matter in parliament they need to be courageous, argues Ibbitson. This is similar to my post on Tuesday, except I assign ambition, not fear to
their motivations.
Finally, most importantly, zombies in the House of Commons. No, I’m not talking about the backbenchers.
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