Reform Act allows MPs to assert true independence
The key to rebalancing this relationship long term is that these formal mechanisms help to reshape the political culture.
Governance
Turn the Senate back into Canada's house of memory
Creeping independence is making our partisan politics weaker and our politicians dumber.
So who is running the government right now?
It might seem odd to leave a subjective decision like this in the hands of the prime minister. He may, after all, be biased.
Geoff Sigalet: No housing plan is effective without the provinces
Over the coming days, The Hub will publish mandate letters for the incoming cabinet ministers that set out a series of bold policy prescriptions that would cumulatively tilt Canadian politics…
MP Mike Lake on how to use every waking minute to get things done
In this Hub Dialogue, part of our new policy in action series, The Hub’s editor-at-large Sean Speer speaks to Mike Lake, the member of parliament for the riding of Edmonton — Wetaskiwin.
MP Dan Albas wants to shake up the status quo on student loans
In this Hub Dialogue, editor-at-large Sean Speer speaks to Dan Albas, the Conservative shadow minister of environment and climate change, about his plan to help young Canadians pay off their student loans.
Royce Koop: Beware the Tory syndrome
The Tory Syndrome therefore led to a vicious cycle: the party’s infighting resulted in part from a lack of power, and in turn made it even more difficult to win.
Sean Speer: Centre Block’s massive price tag shows Canadian life is mired in red tape
We now find ourselves in the odd company of the Slovak Republic and other former communist states when it comes to the efficiency and expectedness of our regulatory processes. This isn’t generally a good sign.
Joanna Baron: Without a Governor General, Canada lacks institutional independence
The media has mostly been silent about the risks posed by the Governor General vacuum to our institutional independence and legitimacy. Have they failed to grasp the risk to institutional independence and legitimacy occasioned by Richard Wagner’s tenure as acting Governor General?
Michael Chong rejects the argument Canada is an ‘inherently racist country’
In this Hub Dialogue, editor-at-large Sean Speer speaks to Michael Chong, the Conservative shadow minister of foreign affairs.
