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As I watched the leaders' debate tonight, my mom made a comment that I agreed with entirely. As each of the leaders contradicted one another over taxes, who was offering what to which Canadian, and who voted for and against each proposal, my mom and I both realized we had no idea who to believe. It's a feeling I've often had, and I'm not sure what can be done about it.

A thought I had was for a portion of each MP's Parliament-granted mailing budget to be assigned to a quarterly summary of proposals, voting, and arguments of each party. Administered by a non-partisan Parliament-created organism, it would present the quarter's major policy projects, amendments, and so on, without regard to proportionally representing the parties' on the summary.

Thus the report would be divided into sections, each one discussing a policy project. The first part of the section would present the bill's main points. The next could present arguments for and against, as submitted to the organization by each party. Following that could be amendments, another arguments section, and finally the voting.


That would help, but it would make MP's way too accountable to Canadians for them to accept it. For voting histories etc, we do have howdidtheyvote.ca which does a pretty excellent job of giving us MP's records. To discuss policy, we have the Canadian Policy Wiki (this site.) Maybe what we need is for a site such as this to be officially supported by the Canadian goverment as an independent form of interacting with MP's. Of course, if it was funded by Ottawa, it might bring some bias in the adminship which would be a bad thing. For now, we just need people to visit and post and get this community going so we can send a clear message to Ottawa. AWALLWORK 21:36, 9 January 2006 (PST)

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