Irresponsible Government

2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction In Irresponsible Government , former MP Brent Rathgeber takes Parliament to task for its failure to hold the government to account. Irresponsible Government examines the current state of Canadian democracy in contrast to the founding principles of responsible government established by the Fathers of Confederation in 1867. The book examines the failure of modern elected representatives to perform their constitutionally mandated duty to ho