MP Martin’s mace-grabbing incident raises bigger issue about dangerous hollowing out of Canadian Parliamentary democracy

Canadian Alliance MP Keith Martin recently picked up the ceremonial mace of the House of Commons as a protest against what he sees as the undermining of Parliamentary democracy in Canada. His action was contrary to tradition, the House censured him and he subsequently apologized. In terms of the ...

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