Finally! Reforming Politics: The BC Blueprint

A Fraser Institute Conference,
November 22, 2001, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Session A: The Substance of Reform

• A Case for Changing the Voting System and a Consideration of Alternative Systems
  Nick Loenen, Fair Voting B.C.

• Selecting Representatives: A Response to Nick Loenen
  Andrew Petter, Acting Dean, Faculty of Law University of Victoria

• The Obstacles to Empowering MPs and MLAs:  What It Would Take to Empower Them
  Peter Dobell, Founding Director, Parliamentary Centre

• Freedom of the MP Within A Party Structure
  Ted White, MP, North Vancouver

• Powers Reserved to the Electorate: Limitations and Ambiguities
  Barry Cooper, Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary

Session B:  Process:  What Has (and hasn’t) Worked; What Might Work

• Remarks to Reforming Politics: a British Columbia Blueprint
  The Honourable John Reid, Information Commissioner for Canada

• Limits to the Power of the People
  Herbert Grubel, David Somerville Fellow, The Fraser Institute

• Biographies of all Speakers

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