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The Ontario Citizens' Assembly was Monumental
For the past few weeks I have been researching and writing about the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform. I did some outreach and have so far found 13 Ontario political science academics who...
View ArticleOntario Citizens Assembly Monument - supporters
(What was the Citizen's Assembly?)We the undersigned agree:The Ontario Citizens' Assembly was an exceptional example of a legitimately democratic public policy development process."I am a great admirer...
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A Summary of the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform
Starting September 2006, 103 randomly selected Ontario citizens committed to 30-40 hours a month for 8 months to get educated, hear public consultation and deliberate on the topic of electoral reform...
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About the Citizen's Assembly Monument Project
CitizensAssemblyMonument.ca is a volunteer project of Jason Diceman, an independent stakeholder engagement consultant and deliberative democracy researcher in Toronto. He is neither associated to the...
View ArticleAn Evaluation of the Ontario Citizens' Assembly Process
To structure my evaluation of the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform I use the proven criteria and suggestions from the popularly cited "Public Participation Methods: A Framework for...
View ArticleCitizen Assembly process a high point for democratic engagement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEProcess for developing electoral reform already demonstrates better democracy in actionToronto - A growing list of political science professors from across Ontario agree that the...
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Ontario referendum should approve MMP by 84%, but will more likely fail
At the end of their 8 month learning, consultation and deliberation process the 103 members of the the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly voted 84% in approval of Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) over the...
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