38th minority Parliament: not memorable

Ned Franks, a top expert on Parliament democracy, says the 38th Parliament had no 'knock-down, dragged out fight on public policy' issues.

The 38th minority Parliament had few highlights, won't go down in the history books as a memorable one and was not marked by a high degree of cooperation among all political parties with a common resolve to deal forthrightly with the issues of public policy, says one of the country's top experts on Parliamentary democracy.

Queen's University professor Ned Franks told The Hill Times last week that it is hard to pin-point...