Fixing Canadian Democracy

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.