Forcing Choice
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Forcing Choice

The Risky Reward of Referendums

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Forcing Choice

The Risky Reward of Referendums

About this book

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017 What happens when crucial public issues are decided the people themselves? Canadians answered "Yes" or "No" to prohibiting alcohol, conscripting soldiers, and revamping our constitution. Forcing such crucial choices at the ballot box is high-stakes democracy, both here and overseas — as witnessed with Britain's transformative 2016 "Brexit" referendum. Forcing Choice dissects Canada's extensive use of ballot questions at all levels of government, and weighs the benefits of citizens making fundamental decisions for the nation. Holding referendums is tricky, and getting it wrong carries a high price. This hard-hitting book draws on Boyer's deep research on direct democracy and his experience advising governments about referendums, writing books, drafting and introducing the Canada Referendum Act, monitoring foreign referendums, and campaigning in Canadian ones.

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Appendix

Canadian Ballot-Issue Votes: National, Provincial, Territorial
(Although not tabulated below, thousands of municipal ballot questions, dozens on reserves, and many sectoral direct votes on agricultural issues have also taken place.)
Jurisdiction
Date of Voting
Issue
Canada
Sept. 29, 1898
Prohibition of liquor by national law
April 27, 1942
Release government from election mandate on conscription
Oct. 26, 1992
Approval of Charlottetown Accord constitutional amendments
British
Columbia
Nov. 25, 1909
Local option policy for liquor control
Sept. 14, 1916
Women’s suffrage
same day
Prohibition of liquor
Oct. 20, 1920
Temperance Act
June 20, 1924
Sale of beer by the glass
June 1, 1937
Public health insurance
June 12, 1952
Daylight Saving Time
same day
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Table of contents

  1. HTP
  2. TP
  3. CR
  4. Ded
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. OnDem
  8. Preface
  9. CH1
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  39. Appendix
  40. ACK
  41. Notes
  42. Biblio