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Article: Keep democrary out of court.(Letter to the editor)
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- Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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Sir:
Heather MacIvor raises some interesting points in her guest editorial in the autumn edition of the Canadian Parliamentary Review. Her main point is that electoral reform could be achieved by using s. 3 of the Charter to challenge some of the provisions of the Canada Elections Act. Unfortunately, the idea itself is plagued with problems and is based on a misunderstanding of what representation means in Canada.
First and foremost, while MacIvor makes an interesting argument on the constitutionality of Single Member Plurality (SMP) and the legislation that puts that system into practice, she fails to address the foundations of Canadian government ...