The notebook of a journalist in the Parliamentary Press Gallery.
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Declined ballots are nonsense
My column this week on Loonie Politics (a couple of days late owing to the holiday) looks at the attention paid recently to the "declined ballot" option available in Ontario and the attempt to get that made a federal option, and why it's not only a bad idea, but a fundamental betrayal of our very system of government.
A freelance journalist in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. I contribute to Blacklock's Reporter and Loonie Politics, and wrote the Politics on TV column for Macleans.ca. I served as the Political Editor for Outlooks - Canada's GLBT Magazine, and have contributed to the Xtra chain, Ottawa Xpress, the Hill Times, the Ottawa Citizen, iPolitics.ca and The Canadian Press. I'm also an occasional talking head on CTV News Channel.
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