Our Scandalous Senate

Name: Our Scandalous Senate
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ISBN: 9781459723665

ISBN-10: 145972366X

ISBN-13: 9781459723665

Edition: 2014

Authors: J. Patrick Boyer

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In 2013 Canadians grew appalled at scandals involving prominent senators: resignations at highest levels, damning reports from independent auditing firms, a precedent-setting review of all Senate spending by Canada's auditor general, and RCMP investigations of criminal acts.In this timely book, J. Patrick Boyer provides an in-depth look at this new low in the history of Canada's Senate, and shows how the bigger national scandal is the Senate's very existence. The Senate of Canada is a leading specimen of "resistance to change," that little-understood phenomenon by which the entrenched power of existing institutions creates a dead-weight of inertia. Yet at last, even this institution seems…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 5/31/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

J. Patrick Boyer is a constitutional lawyer, political science professor, veteran of the House of Commons, journalist, and author of some twenty books on Canadian history, law, politics, and governance. He also frequently comments on Canadian public affairs for various media outlets. Patrick lives in Muskoka and Toronto.