Don Davies

Idlout’s decision is anti-democratic.

The balance of power in this House was shifted not by voters in an election, but by political operatives in the backroom, holding private conversations hidden from the public.

That’s U.S.-style, southern pork-barrel politics. And I don’t think Canadians support that.

I think our government is asleep at the switch, as it were, because I think that technology is moving much more rapidly and we don’t have any guardrails,

The prospect of MPs being enticed by backroom deals emerges and the notion that only government members get resources for their constituencies smacks of the pork barrel politics more reminiscent of the United States deep south than in…

I think what we need to do is rise above our own personal partisan interests and think of the health of our parliament to help our democracy and frankly the integrity of our voters.