My column this week on Loonie Politics looks at the proposal that Jim Prentice made in the Alberta PC leadership race about term limits for leaders and MLAs. I not only discuss why it's a fraught proposition in a Westminster democracy like ours, but why it plays into some of the worst thinking about our system, where the fear of "career politicians" ends up making things worse and not better for accountability.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Term limits and the outsider fetish
My column this week on Loonie Politics looks at the proposal that Jim Prentice made in the Alberta PC leadership race about term limits for leaders and MLAs. I not only discuss why it's a fraught proposition in a Westminster democracy like ours, but why it plays into some of the worst thinking about our system, where the fear of "career politicians" ends up making things worse and not better for accountability.
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