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Fixing Canadian Democracy points to a variety of ways to improve our governance system. The book is the result of a major Fraser Institute conference on democratic reform during which some of the finest practitioners and thinkers from British Columbia and Ottawa were brought together for presentations on selecting and empowering representatives, the place and limits of direct democracy, constitutional constraints, and how to make any of the above a reality.
The book begins by focusing on three of the most basic principles that are seldom mentioned at all by democratic reformers: the optimal size of government, subsidiarity, and constitutional constraints.
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Gordon Gibson was born in Vancouver in 1937. He attended the University of British Columbia (BC Honours Mathematics and Physics, 1959) and Harvard Business School (MBA - Distinction, 1961) and subsequently did research in political science at the London School of Economics. He has served as Assistant to the Minister of Northern Affairs (1963-68), Executive and later Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (1968-72), and ran in three federal elections.
He has been active in both business and public affairs in Western Canada, including 12 years on the Canada West Council. Over the years he has been a regular columnist with, successively, The Financial Post, The Vancouver Sun, and The Globe and Mail and The National Post. He joined The Fraser Institute in 1993 as Senior Fellow in Canadian Studies, specializing in the research on federalism, and has published several books and papers with the Institute. Most recently he was commissioned by British Columbia's government to develop quidelines for the creation of a Citizen's Assembly on Electoral Reform.
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