Dale Smith

Dale Smith is a freelance journalist in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, and author of The Unbroken Machine: Canada’s Democracy in Action (release March 2017).

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2020 COLUMNS

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Scheer’s expenses should be a wake-up for Conservative party governance

Senator Gold keeping an open mind on rule changes

Woo’s spells out his “programming committee” plans

Plans to streamline invite massive unintended consequences

Time is running out for Lynn Beyak

Bad bills won’t make Section 92 disappear

Where have all the Red Tories gone?

A quantitative retrospection in a qualitative world

The ongoing credulous takes on the Reform Act

When governments are vexatious litigants

Canada could use more “lifers” in Parliament

Does the Senate’s ethics regime need change for the sake of change?

Reports of our disintegrating institutions are greatly exaggerated

Civility and the death of Responsible Government

2019 COLUMNS