FIRING THE BOSS AN MP's RIGHT

(This was published in the National Post on August 14, 2002, the week that Jean Chrétien announced he had decided to retire, eventually.)

WHY 'FAIR VOTING' - The "Fair Voting" Crusade Takes Wing

(This essay on proportional representation ran in the National Post on May 25, 2002.)

THE HEAVE -- BACKBENCHERS FIGHT BACK

(First published in National Post, Toronto, February 13, 2001. The Post was running a week-long series on what was wrong with the Canadian Parliament.)

VOTE-BUYING -- The Great Canadian Tradition

(First published in National Post, February 14, 2002, in the midst of a leadership controversy in the governing Liberal party and leadership races in the Canadian Alliance and Ontario Conservative parties)

WHY CAN'T WE IMPEACH A PRIME MINISTER?

(First published in the Calgary Herald, January 1999, during the uproar over the impeachment and trial of American President Bill Clinton for some alleged criminality no one really believed in, even at the time, and no one can remember anymore)

A WAY OF THINKING: IDEAS AND PRACTICES OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN CANADA 1900-50

(Organization for the History of Canada Conference
Montreal, October 3-4, 2002 "Canada from 1900 to 1950: A Country comes of Age")

THE ANNUAL JOHN A. MACDONALD LECTURE, 2004

(Hart House, University of Toronto Wednesday January 14, 2004)

THE LIBERAL LEADERSHIP "RACE": Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

(I wrote this opinion piece for The Hill Times, the newspaper of Parliament Hill, It was published on March 13, 2006 - but on their website www.thehilltimes.ca it's behind a paywall, for subscribers only. Here's the text.)

OUR CANADIAN REPUBLIC

(This essay was first published in The Literary Review of Canada, October 2008)