MPs should be asking better questions about innovation and technology; this is huge

Until MPs take charge in our system of representative democracy we will end up with poorer polices than we might otherwise have, leaving Canada worse off than it needs to be.
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, pictured in this file photograph at an event on the Hill.
TORONTO—There are many reasons to worry about the state of our democracy. But one reason is the decline in the role of MPs and their self-imposed failure in exercising their constitutional authority in holding government to account. The House of Commons is no longer a Chamber of representatives e...

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