If Canada is to excel in the 21st century, political parties must be reformed and civil society engagement revamped.
Canadians need a means to hold different levels of government to task in between elections.
It’s little wonder why citizens have become so disengaged from our dysfunctional politics.
The final section proposes a bold new approach to addressing Canada’s intolerable mismanagement of aboriginal affairs.
Part 3 of this four-part series proposes the development of a national environmental and energy strategy.
Part 2 of this four-part series presents a first case study: the building and maintenance of our national infrastructure.
Part 1 focuses on Canada’s need to break out of election-cycle thinking and transform our approach to national governance and public finances.
To engage Canadians, we must take the Senate-reform debate to the people, and away from the day-to-day operations of Parliament.
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the Liberal Party did not lose the recent federal election; rather, it was missing in action.
If our national life is reduced to simply managing the economy and federal-provincial relations, not rocking the boat; if the provinces and courts become the default focal point of all serious moral debate; if we come together only in celebration at sporting events, and in grief over the casualties of war and environmental catastrophes, then we are losing the soul of our nation.