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Kevin Vickers, famous for killing the Parliament Hill shooter in October 2014, was Canada’s last Sargent-at-Arms. The Sargent-at-Arms serves as custodian of the Mace, the symbol of the authority of the House. The Mace is formidable, and was originally meant as a weapon. When considering electoral reform as a means of bestowing greater authority upon [...]

Janet Ajzenstat is the greatest scholar of our generation on Confederation and on the moral basis of Canadian parliamentary democracy. In Discovering Confederation and other writings, she points out how the Fathers of Confederation were deeply divided over the proper manner to ratify the Quebec Accords that were the basis of confederation and the British [...]