Liberals' Grand Old Man suggests some ways to fix a broken electoral system
22nd Dec 2005, 13:52 GMT
He is, many will say, The Grand Old Man of the Ruling Party -- and he, too, thinks the system is broken.Tom Kent is 83 years old. The former principal assistant to prime minister Lester Pearson -- as well as former deputy minister, former Crown corporation head, former chair of a royal commission and lifelong intellectual spark of the Liberal Party of Canada -- believes that Canadian democracy is currently in such a bad state that the future of the country itself is endangered by elections such as the one we are now well into. (INSIDER Edition subscribers only)
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