Ed Broadbent: Canada has ‘ignored’ social and economic rights for decades
Speaking at the 2022 Progress Summit, former federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent said successive governments in Canada have neglected its legal obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Voting for something
Editor’s note: Debate on electoral reform loomed large at Progress Summit 2016. Broadbent Institute founder Ed Broadbent told delegates at Canada’s largest annual progressive policy conference that the fight for proportional representation is a fight that progressives can - and must - win.
And Postmedia News columnist Andrew Coyne and Alex Himelfarb, former clerk of the Privy Council, representing the Yes side in the Great Debate: Be it Resolved that Canada Needs Proportional Representation, argued persuasively about how the current winner-take-all system is broken and PR is the only solution to remedy the problems of first-post-the-post.
Below, Broadbent Institute Leadership Fellow Jennifer Hollett shares her perspective.
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