Our Scandalous Senate
An in-depth breakdown of the recent wave of Canadian Senate scandals, highlighting the need for abolition. The Senate of Canada was created as a temporary expedient at the time of Confederation, offered as part of the negotiations to bring Canada's original colonial provinces into the new political union in the mid-1860s. Since then, the original provinces with upper houses abolished them. New provinces were created without second chambers to their legislatures. Only the Parliament of Canada remains stuck with its redundant and irrelevant colonial relic, costly to maintain and out of step with the values of a modern democratic country. Today,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4597-2368-9
- EAN: 9781459723689
- Produktnummer: 20460402
- Verlag: Dundurn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 949 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 1
Über den Autor
J. Patrick Boyer studied law at the International Court of Justice in The Netherlands, served as Canada's Parliamentary Secretary for External Affairs, and works for democratic development overseas. The author of twenty-three books on Canadian history, law, politics, and governance, Patrick lives with wife, Elise, in Muskoka and Toronto.
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