Althia Raj: Könnten sich Kanadas große politische Parteien alle auf etwas Schlimmeres einigen?

This is exactly why politicians shouldn’t be in charge of their own election rules. We need them to recuse themselves and hand the reins to a permanent, non-partisan body (a position advocated by groups like Fairvote and the Longest Ballot Committee)

I can’t imagine there’s many voters who’d agree to political parties being completely exempt from privacy law, yet here we are…our elected representatives all in agreement. There’s simply too big of a conflict of interest when MPs are regulating themselves, and it’s too important for us voters to simply ignore.

It’s worth remembering that we’ve fixed this before. Canada used to have a gerrymandering problem until Manitoba led the way with the first independent boundary commission in the 50s. If we could get politicians out of the business of drawing maps, we can get them out of the business of writing the rest of the election rules.