National Post Radio: Dale Smith and Jen Gerson square off on Justin Trudeau’s plan to fix Ottawa

Finally online is a Canada Talks radio debate that I had a few days ago with National Post digital comment editor Jen Gerson about electoral reform, and in case you haven't read my work before, I took the con position, arguing that there's a lot more going for the status quo than people tend to believe.

The Senate is killing private members' bills – and that's a good thing

I have a new op-ed in the National Post, wherein I look at the number of private members' bills that are due to die on the Order Paper when the Senate rises any day now, and why it's not such a bad thing, as these bills have proliferated and become a genuine legislative problem in the past few years. Not to mention, it's also validating the role of the Senate when it comes to stopping bad bills before they make it into law, causing more problems down the road.

Chong's Reform Act is 'actively toxic to Canadian democracy'

I have a new op-ed on the National Post's Full Comment page, which returns to the issue of Michael Chong's Reform Act, and I continue to deconstruct it as being a step in the right direction, to showing how it will be exactly the opposite. Originally the piece had more about Chong's hypocrisy in his hopes to use the Senate to kill a different bill he didn't like, but we wound up reworking it to stay focused on this bill, but it worked out quite well in the end.

Who killed Question Period?

I have an op-ed in the National Post, which looks at the way in which Question Period has declined even more of late than it's usual terrible self, and the ways in which the fixed election date has made a bad situation even worse. I'm also very happy that this made it into the print edition of the Post, for my first time.