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Book Excerpt Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control
['Alex Marland', 'More This Author']
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In Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government, Peter Aucoin, Mark Jarvis, and Lori Turnbull argue that proposals for democratic reform in Canada must establish clear objectives, place formal constraints on prime ministerial power, provide mechanisms for the House of Commons to enforce the reform, and entrench the power of MPs in both majority and minority governments. The provision in Ontario’s Government Advertising Act that government advertising is partisan if it “includes, to a significant degree, a colour associated with the governing party” is a starting point in that it recognizes that colour schemes are loaded with political meaning.