Democracy Cafe: The Unsound Constitutional Foundations of Canada's Parliamentary Democracy - Part 1

Peter Russell is a University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto where he taught political science from 1958 to his retirement in 1996. He is a past President of the Canadian Political Science Association, the Canadian Law and Society Association, and the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy. He has published widely on constitutional, judicial and aboriginal politics. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and holds honorary degrees from a number of universities and the Law Society of Upper Canada. Professor Russell is the author of the recently published Two Cheers for Minority Government: The Evolution of Canadian Parliamentary Democracy (Emond Montgomery Publications, 2008). He is also the co-editor of Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis, a book of essays on the parliamentary crisis Canada experienced from November 2008 to the end of January 2009 published by University of Toronto Press.

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