The Ottawa Citizen's new Queen's Park reporter Matthew Pearson made the trek out to my hometown of Perth a few weeks back to talk to me about the various issues that I go to bat for my constituents over. I was also very pleased that The Canadian Parliamentary Review decided to showcase the reforms to the Legislature I proposed early this year in their most recent volume. Over the past few weeks, I tabled bills that would limit the use of prorogation, expand the use of jury trials and overhaul our ability to investigate government ministries and agencies through the use of grand juries. The priority I have set for most of my legislative agenda this session has been to ensure that the Legislature better respect taxpayers and also allowing voters to be more influential in politics. You can listen to that interview here, as well as my interview on CFRA here and an article in the Ottawa Citizen here. Even CBC Radio contacted me and asked if I would be interested in doing a thirty minute panel discussion on this Bill. While I expected many of my supporters and constituents to be very interested in this Legislation, I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of media attention it received. On October 30th, I introduced a bill that would allow voters to recall their Member of Provincial Parliament and hold them to account. However, I have remained busy and thought you might find some of my recent activity both important and interesting. Their respective failings and falsehoods underscore why our democracy is in the shape it is currently in. It has been a sad state of affairs lately given the endless political shambles of a few Senators, Premiers and Mayors.
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