Pink slips for politicians: assessing recall in Canada
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2012
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Recall, the third, lesser-known member of the direct democracy triumvirate after the initiative and referendum, is a device that allows constituents to remove and replace an elected official before the next general election. Used almost exclusively in the United States, recall has nonetheless left a faint footprint on Canada's political landscape. From its introduction in Depression-era Alberta, to its sainted position among the tenets of the Reform Party's democratic reform agenda, to the spate ofrecent efforts to recall MLAs in British Columbia who supported the unpopular HST, there is a pool of Canadian experience, albeit shallow, through which to wade and on which to reflect. What are the implications of transferring a device developed in the American system that permits representatives significant latitude to act independently to the Canadian parliamentary system that allows for far less autonomy?
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McDonald, M. (2012). Pink slips for politicians: assessing recall in Canada (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4940